the "gamma" proposal - details that need working out

[Alexander Dymo]

On 7/11/07, Tom Albers <tomalbers at kde.nl> wrote:
> No, it's not if you read the whole thread. Problem is that this 'release when ready' works great in small open source projects. But when there are hundereds people working on one project, there is no time when everyone is 'ready' at the same time. We have set a schedule, so everyone can get ready at certain times. The schedule is not set in stone, for example we changed the name of beta1 to alfa2 when we felt we were not 'ready' for that phase.

You didn't change the schedule, you changed the name. That's the problem.

> > As a russian saying states, do not call the devil your brother... Why
> > inventing names instead of shifting the schedule by 3 months?
> Hehe, that would be too easy ;-)
> Seriously, in that case when an additional delay happens, we can not do a release party, so we have to be finished before that.
So the only reason is to have a release party?

> Besides, there are people counting on us to release around that time. Delaying the
> release for 3 months would hurt those people.
Who are those people? Some commercial companies?