:) This idea certinally has been proposed already, and some initial writing up on a plan can be found here: http://trac.adium.im/wiki/ReleaseCycle
another email thread on it was started by colin, inspired by Mozilla's plan, can be found here: http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2011-March/008199.html I can't find the initial email threads/irc logs where we discussed the 1-month per phase cycle mentioned on our wiki, but there should be enough info there to get started. On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Colin Barrett wrote: > Aren't we, in theory, supposed to be doing this already? > > At the very least the old plan should be the strawman proposal we begin with, > considering how long we spent hashing it all out. > > -Colin (via thumbs) > > On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Paul Wilde <paulwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Something I'd like to suggest whilst we're on the subject of releases is >> maybe adopt a similar release cycle to Google Chrome once 1.5 is released. >> Mozilla (Firefox) have just now adopted this as well. >> >> 1.4.2 was released 7 months after 1.4.1, that's a long time when a few of >> those tickets were fixed within a month or two of 1.4.1 being released. 1 or >> 2 releases could of potentially been made in between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 to give >> users bug fixes faster. >> >> So basically what I'm trying to say is rather than having fixes and features >> sat on a branch for 1-2 years begging to be see the light of day whilst >> waiting for the rest of the features to be completed, instead release what's >> there (assuming its release quality of course). I know stuff has been said >> previously about keeping branches in a release quality state. >> >> Also to ensure that stuff does actually get released set a rough timeframe >> of one minor release every month with whatever fixes are committed during >> that time. >> >> Really 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 etc don't need to hold 100+ tickets as it demotivates >> people from contributing, I believe 30-40 tickets per major release is >> perfectly fine. >> >> I know that both Adrian and Robby are in favour of this at the very least. >
