Re: Release Spacing, was: Snapshots for testing

[Kathey Marsden]

Rick Hillegas wrote:
Bryan Pendleton wrote:
...
Alternatively, we could have smaller, more frequent releases.

In my dream world, I'd like to see Derby releases occur about twice
as frequently as they currently do.

I'm sure this would require streamlining the release process, but
perhaps we could put effort into that.

thanks,

bryan

According to our download page, it took 14 months to produce 10.2 and 
10 months to produce 10.3. I also would like to see a shorter, more 
regular spacing between feature releases. I think that the community 
could tolerate 6 month spacings between feature releases. The 
following discipline might help:

I think maintenance releases are also important.  If we can produce a 
maintenance release at the three month interval, we can hopefully start 
to get a handle on our growing bug backlog and deliver fixes more 
quickly to users. I am hoping for example that our next release will be 
10.3.2.0.

Kathey