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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile release planning
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:41:15 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <491A5E6B.5010208@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49dd78620811101723m6b014589ua01037d5ea3f17b9@mail.gmail.com>

Neil Jerram escreveu:
> So, what do you think?  There have been discussions of release
> strategy in the past, which I've seen as 50/50 between the split
> stable and development model (which we have now) and the steady new
> feature model (described above), but I don't recall them considering
> the overall community focus angle before.  In my view, when we add in
> that angle, the steady new feature model is better.

One angle that we could take is time based release planning, like GNOME and 
Fedora do: plan to do one or two releases per year on a rigid schedule.  The 
LilyPond 2.11 vs. 2.12 jump has been delaying for too long, but I generally do 
a biweekly release, which is stable enough to reasonably be called 'stable', and
it has worked very well so far.

The precondition for this is that there is a good test-suite so we can be
sure that a release that passes the tests is good.


-- 
 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-11  1:23 Guile release planning Neil Jerram
2008-11-11  1:59 ` Mike Gran
2008-11-15 23:03   ` Neil Jerram
2008-11-15 23:19     ` Mike Gran
2008-11-11  3:44 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-11-11 17:10   ` Greg Troxel
2008-11-11 20:00   ` Andy Wingo
2008-11-11 21:05     ` Linas Vepstas
2008-11-11 22:06       ` Andy Wingo
2008-11-11 20:18   ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-15 23:16   ` Neil Jerram
2008-11-16 23:33     ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-17 20:49       ` Andy Wingo
2008-11-18 10:22         ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-12-08 22:05           ` Neil Jerram
2008-12-09 17:01             ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-11 15:32 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-11-11 20:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-16  0:03   ` Neil Jerram
2008-11-16  5:11     ` Linas Vepstas
2008-11-16 12:46     ` Greg Troxel
2008-11-16 23:55     ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-12  4:41 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2008-11-12 19:11   ` Andy Wingo

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