On Friday, October 29, 2010, at 03:10 am, Russel Winder wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:37 +1100, Adam Murdoch wrote: > > 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.
I think rigidity is the specific problem here. We moved to time boxing for Hibernate releases and the results were overwhelmingly positive. Of course we really only do them for pre stable releases. So alphas, betas, rcs. We also plan it for the first sp/point-release. I totally agree with what you say about time boxing stable releases. --- Steve Ebersole <[email protected]> http://hibernate.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
