Time based releases?

[Ian Monroe]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Ahoy maties!
>
> So we've recently been discussing something on IRC. The gist of it:
> "Hey, everybody is moving to time based release schedules. Let's do it
> too!"
>
> I've been proposing doing something like a "2/2" scheme: 2 months
> features, 2 months bug fixing, which would leave us with an
> approximately 4 months cycle. Some others on IRC agreed to this scheme
> too, in general.
>
> I don't really feel like discussing the pros and cons of time based
> releases here, since it has been discussed so often all over the
> Internet. But I think it's becoming a very evident trend that many
> projects are moving in this direction (Ubuntu, SUSE, GNOME, KDE, and
> today I learned that FFmpeg is doing it too [1]).
>
> Basically I believe that the days of "release it when it's done" are
> over. That was the 90s and such, and that was Perl 6, Duke Nukem
> Forever, The Hurd. And now it's 2009, and it's become evident that
> time based releases are mostly better.
>
>
> Thoughts?

We've been doing time based releases for a long time now. Amarok 2.0.0
was the exception to the rule.

I'm not sure about setting a 2/2 rule, so far we've been setting the
schedule in a more ad-hoc fashion and I think thats fine. :)

Ian