On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:42:15AM +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: > > > Am 03.04.2014 08:44, schrieb Lex Trotman: > > On 3 April 2014 17:31, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troe...@uvena.de> wrote: > >> On 01/04/14 00:49, Lex Trotman wrote: > >>> Since we are about to produce a new release I propose a change to the > >>> Geany workflow. > >>> > >>> More regular releases. > >>> > >>> Acknowledging that Geany hasn't the number of contributors that say > >>> firefox has, monthly would seem too often, so instead I propose an 8 > >>> week schedule: > >>> > >>> - week 4 feature freeze, alpha release for testing > >>> - week 6 string freeze, beta release for testing > >>> - week 7 release candidate > >>> - week 8 THE RELEASE!!! > >>> > >>> Then we don't need to be so careful about changes, because problems > >>> only last for a couple of months until the next release, and since > >>> only a few new features will be added each release nobody will feel > >>> that they have lost much if they have to downgrade due to bugs. > >>> > >>> I therefore propose that the eight week period should start today April 1. > >> > >> Yeah, very great idea. And of course we must do the same for Geany-Plugins! > >> > > > > Oh, I wouldn't *DARE* tell that to Frank. :-D > > Pfff.... ;) > Maybe also don't bother hyperair with ...
Hmm? Sounds good to me. Debian's also moving to an 8-week release cycle[1] in case you didn't know. Would be great to have all our upstreams sync up with this. [1] http://is.gd/WVZvnI -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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