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Subject: Re: branch for 3.5 today/tonight/this weekend?

Re: branch for 3.5 today/tonight/this weekend?

From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:19:23 -0800

2009/12/3 Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>:
> Jonathan Gordon wrote:
>>
>> Users will notice a difference in some screens (recording and fm
>> especially), but obviously I'm the only one who cares about that(!)
>>
>
> Don't act like you really care about it. You're unwilling to wait *two
> weeks*, and would rather demand that we change the entire release schedule
> to avoid inconveniencing you and are holding this change over everyone's
> heads saying "change the release schedule or I commit it now." If you really
> cared about not surprising users with changed behaviour in the release you'd
> say "okay, you guys don't agree we should change the schedule, so I'll have
> a small amount of patience and wait until after the branch." Caring about
> the users is allowing yourself to be inconvenienced, not demanding everyone
> else change their behaviour or else you force things upon the users. You're
> basically trying to use the user base as a weapon here.
>

Gee I'm so sorry to inconvience you Paul, I'm sure you have a dozen
bug fixes you just need to wait another week for before having time to
commit them?
Received on 2009-12-04

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