On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:37 +1100, Adam Murdoch wrote:
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> 
> Right. We were a bit optimistic calling it rc-1. At the time we didn't
> intend to do anything other than fix bugs, but a few changes did sneak
> in.

Thanks, I can live with that history :-)

> > Is the intention that rc-2 will become the 0.9 release within a
> > fixed
> > time frame unless someone find a blocking bug, or will we see an
> > rc-3
> > with more changes?
> 
> Both :)
> 
> The intention is that rc-2 will become the 0.9 release after an (as
> yet unspecified) time period. And the reality is that we'll probably
> do an rc-3. Let's see what bugs we end up finding and fixing.

We are seeing a problem with the GPars documentation generation which
primarily looks like it might be a Gradle dependency issue, but it could
be Grails Doc or both.  More news later this morning.

> After this, I think we should switch to a more disciplined, time-boxed
> release schedule. Maybe something like every 4 weeks.

It really depends on what the goal, resources and work plan are.  I
would not go to such a rigid timeboxing just for the sake of it.  Bazaar
used to have rigid 4 week timing and whilst there was very rapid
evolution that was fine.  Now that things are more stable and evolution,
whilst still happening, is happening at  more leisure, a more relaxed
approach with a 6 to 10 week timebox dependent on the current workplan,
seems to be working very well.  They of course are tied to the Ubuntu
release schedule providing a 6 monthly super-timebox.


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