On Mar 3 2013 3:44 PM, Chris Morley wrote:
>> > This reminds me.... Is there a roadmap document anywhere that
>> shows what we can expect for upcoming/future releases?
>> > For example, questions I have are... Will 2.6.0 be on 10.04 or
>> 12.04 or both? Will new rt kernel options be incorporated?
>>
>> I don't know anything about roadmaps, and I don't speak for anyone
>> but
>> myself. We're not really a roadmap kind of organization. We're a
>> much
>> more anarchic and loosely-organized bunch.
>>
>>
>> That said, I expect that 2.6, when it's released, will run with RTAI
>> on
>> 8.04 (Hardy) and 10.04 (Lucid). The 2.6-pre branch currently works
>> on
>> these platforms, and i will put in effort to make sure that doesn't
>> break before the release.
>
> While I agree we are probably never going to be a strict roadmap
> group,
> I personally think that setting rough milestones for releases would
> help
> us move things along.
>
> Something like 'In mid Aug, we will be looking at potential feature
> freeze for release 2.6'
> And it needs to by sent on the maillist not in IRC.
I agree. I only get on IRC when I need to deal with something psudo
real-time -- otherwise I never get anything done. I personally find
online IRC all the time to be a huge distraction and time sync.
> A deadline motivates people.
>
> 2.5 was really bad for this, we never had an announced feature freeze
> for it consequently it had things added very late.
> For my work (PNCconf) this is a real problem cause my updates can
> only happen after all the mesa stuff has been added.
> PNCconf was very buggy when released ( not all because of that ).
>
> I mean it's easy enough to postpone a release if it's not warranted
> or not ready ( by setting a new milestone )
>
> I feel this is very important.
This should help things along.
EBo --
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