<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Inge Wallin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:inge@lysator.liu.se">inge@lysator.liu.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thursday, January 13, 2011 14:15:01 Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:<br>
> On Thursday 13 January 2011, Tomas Mecir wrote:<br>
> > As a disclaimer, I'm not active in Calligra development currently, so<br>
> > my opinion may not be entirely relevant, but hopefully it will be<br>
> > useful anyway.<br>
> ><br>
> > Wouldn't it be better to (at least for the initial release) use a<br>
> > different development scheme with an alpha/beta version being released<br>
> > every month or so, with no feature freeze in place? It could be more<br>
> > work to manage it, but by maintaining a relatively constant stream of<br>
> > pre-releases that each contains actual improvements (not only bug<br>
> > fixes), you'd keep the general awareness of the project, while at the<br>
> > same time having enough time to polish the applications to be end-user<br>
> > ready for the first final version (2.4 or 3.0 or however you're going<br>
> > to call it).<br>
><br>
> One of my main concern with that is that I do think that having hard date<br>
> gives us a focus. I think "a release when we feel we are ready" tends to<br>
> make us go in many directions, because anyway we have time to fix things.<br>
> While if you have a date, you have to focus on selecting what you feel is<br>
> important to finish and fix before that date.<br>
<br>
</div>That is probably correct. How could we make it so that we can keep focus<br>
while still make sure that we get the necessary features and bugfixes in?<br></blockquote><div><br>Perhaps by doing a suggested: every maintainer set a list of required to release features. Then we can set a fixed date for feature freeze and leave the release date opened.<br>
<br>Pierre<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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