+1, I don't care whether we call them alphas or milestones or something else.
Katie Capps Parlante wrote: > Sheila and Mimi put together proposals that identify "phases" for each > 0.7 tenet. Each phase is a somewhat coherent set of features that are > testable, and that an end user could experiment with. > > http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-February/004105.html > http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-February/004108.html > > They've also identified priorities for calendar improvements, a proposal > for which work gets done first: > http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-February/004065.html > > Heikki, Lisa, Alec and others have been arguing strongly for shorter > releases, and I think there is general agreement that we'd like to have > something stable that a user could play with before we finish the whole > scope of 0.7 work we have in front of us. > > Putting this together, I'd like to propose that we have longer, more > stable milestones during the 0.7 timeframe, and that we think about each > milestone as a mini-release (alpha release, if you will). Strawman > proposal: > > + Milestones are ~2 months apart, and feature driven. > > + Each phase proposed by Sheila and Mimi falls into a milestone. (We > could make adjustments once we scope out the work -- one phase could > take two milestones if it had to or we could do two phases in one > milestone if they fit). > > + We spend more time testing and stabilizing each milestone. > > + We provide a path to migrate data from milestone to milestone. > > + The expectation is that dogfood users could download the milestone and > use it. > > + We could use the term "alpha" instead of "milestone" (a nod to > previous discussions about milestone release numbering). > > Thoughts? > > We still need to do more work on bottom up planning to put real dates on > this and see if it works out, but if we have agreement on the general > idea it will provide a structure for the bottom up planning. > > Cheers, > Katie > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Open Source Applications Foundation "Dev" mailing list > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Dev" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
