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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Release schedule proposalRe: Release schedule proposal
From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:32:15 +1100 2008/11/5 Dave Chapman <dave_at_dchapman.com>: > All, > > There's just been a brief discussion in IRC suggesting that we create a > strict timetable for releases as follows: > > * Releases happen every 3 months, with the date of 3.0 (23rd September) > being the reference point, so releases would be: > > 23 March > 23 June > 23 September > 23 December > > * Feature freeze would happen two weeks before release (i.e. the 9th), and > the creation of the release branch would happen one week before release > (i.e. the 16th). > > > Any opinions/objections? > > > Dave. > I'm not against the idea, but I wonder what the point of releasing so often is unless there was something big? On your time line you have freeze, branch, release. What about tracker cleanup, manual fixes, mad rush to get ready patches in? I think we should either release every 4 months instead of 3 to give a bit more gap to do each one properly, or do similar to the ubuntu "schedule" where one release is a bugfix/stable one and the next is more about features (bug fixes still go in of course....) I'm not suggesting adding every patch in the tracker which is in sync... I'm just trying to shrink the number of open patches. What I'm suggesting is that we do a call out onto the mailing lists saying if people have patches they want in and are willing to get them up to scratch then we are more open to have them committed. Doing this every release will probably be bad which is why I'm suggesting every second release. Last thing... I wonder if 2 days before xmas is going to be workable? won't most people have more important IRL things to do? Jonathan. (P.S yes I think there are a fair amount of good patches on the tracker which just need syncing to be acceptable, and I may very well be in the minority here....) Received on 2008-11-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |