Schuyler, I'm a big fan of release-early-release-often but it seems to me that this may be a bit aggressive. It has the advantage of pushing out stable releases very quickly but I think it has a lot of overhead. Most projects I'm familiar with have a 6 month cycle, and even that is difficult to stick with.
I think I would prefer longer cycles, perhaps 3-4 months rather than 2? Paul On 6-Jun-07, at 4:49 PM, Schuyler Erle wrote: > Some Free Software projects have benefitted from the use of scheduled > releases, as a way of focusing community effort and ensuring that > stable > releases with the latest features and bug fixes are available on a > timely and frequent basis. Our experience trying to get 2.4 out the > door > has been very educational, and suggests to me that it may be of > service > to the OpenLayers project to transition to this type of development > model. > > I would like to propose that OpenLayers adopt a two month development > cycle -- roughly six weeks of active feature development, followed > by a > code freeze, and two weeks of release candidate testing. Since 2.4 was > released in the first week of June, I recommend that we fix mid- > July as > a deadline for the 2.5 code freeze, and aim to have OpenLayers 2.5 > released in the first week of August. Subsequent releases would be > timed > for the first week of even-numbered months (with 2.6 in October and > 2.7 > or 3.0 in December). > > Does anyone have any comments or feedback on this idea? I'd like to > know > if there's any traction in the community before we go with a PSC vote. > Thanks! > > SDE > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Paul Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chief Technology Officer | |DM Solutions Group Inc http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
