You have your reasons. But given this situation, is it surprising that volunteers don't contribute? People like to see their work being reviewed and accepted. They contribute something small, they see it goes well, so they contribute a little more. Give it time, and you have a new developer. If I have to wait 18 months to see my first contribution make it to the first release, I'm not going to contribute. I'll go to Ximian instead.
They only FOSS project that can get away with huge release cycles is Debian. :-) And Debian still has a "testing" and "unstable" branch for those who are less patient.
looking at the recent tension between Debian and Ubuntu I would think not even Debian can get away with huge release cycles (mostly in the case of desktop users)
another example of people feed-up with long release cycles: downloads for our beta/devel builds have exceeded the downloads for stable builds, this is because people are hungry for new features
-- nicu my OpenOffice.org pages: http://ooo.nicubunu.ro
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