Nick Wellnhofer wrote on 7/1/14 11:29 AM:
> On 01/07/2014 15:59, Peter Karman wrote:
>> I consider it part of the release-early/often philosophy to push releases 
>> that
>> may only have changes in documentation or internal refactoring. It gives the
>> testers something to chew on and helps keep development aligned with actual
>> users. Also (and often under-emphasized) the psychological effect of seeing 
>> "and
>> yet another release of Whatever" reflects that the project is alive and well 
>> and
>> Doing Stuff, even if that stuff is invisible to end-users.
> 
> It really depends on the project. IMO, a monthly release cycle is total 
> overkill
> for Lucy. There would be quite a few months where simply nothing happens. We
> also have very few active developers. Personally, I prefer to spend my time on
> other things than cutting a release that doesn't add real value to users or
> developers. But if anyone wants to release 0.4 now for whatever reasons, I
> wouldn't object. The master branch has always been stable.
> 
> I only want to make sure that when we make a public release of Clownfish, it
> should be somewhat usable and properly documented. Failing this, I agree that 
> we
> should bundle Clownfish with Lucy and hide any of its APIs.
> 

+1

It's because we have so few active developers (you and Marvin for this Clownfish
release) that I agree with keeping Clownfish private till you both feel it is
mature (documented, tested, etc) enough to make public.


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