From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile release planning Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:41:15 -0200 Message-ID: <491A5E6B.5010208@xs4all.nl> References: <49dd78620811101723m6b014589ua01037d5ea3f17b9@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226464916 20008 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2008 04:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 12 05:42:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L07Z4-0006yq-LU for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:42:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L07Xw-00026B-PY for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:41:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L07Xs-00025d-61 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:41:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L07Xq-000251-Fi for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37142 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L07Xq-00024r-9B for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:41:34 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34293 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L07Xp-0000Oe-TY for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:41:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L07Xj-0004w4-EC for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:41:27 +0000 Original-Received: from 201.80.54.37 ([201.80.54.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:41:27 +0000 Original-Received: from hanwen by 201.80.54.37 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:41:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.80.54.37 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <49dd78620811101723m6b014589ua01037d5ea3f17b9@mail.gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6883 gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7834 Archived-At: 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