Time based releases?

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:31, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the idea of a concrete release cycle is good---it gives us focus and
>> allows us to work hard on new features then switch to bugfix mode. But I don't
>> see why we need to fix the release cycle for *all* our releases beforehand---
>> why not just decide the length of the next release cycle after each release?
>> Most likely we'll have more information at hand, and can tailor it to our
>> specific needs.
>
> +1
>
> But it might make sense to set a date for next release, feature freeze
> and so on as soon as the previous release is out. That will give
> everyone a better idea of how much tie there really is to add big new
> features. Meaning that as soon as 2.1.0 is out, we set dates for 2.1.1
> ( and possibly even for 2.2.0 ). That makes sense to me, but going
> beyond that does not.

+1


Cheers
Lydia

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