On 02/06/2017 10:06 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
>
> Time-based releases keep the expectations if they are followed. Once
> we miss the frame, we start to have this feature-based releases ("oh,
> waited so long, can wait a bit more") and when people work
> independently, they always have some in-flux work that could get in...
> so at some point these guys will want to delay a bit more so their
> work gets in as well... endless wait -- AKA e17/efl-1.0
>
> IOW: just do it, and let's not miss the 3 month schedule next time. ;-)
>
> The problem is people (even some in Samsung) are writing software that depends on unstable eo, regardless of whether its wrong or right its happening. This means that every release there is an extra bunch of work for downstream projects to roll another release and then for distro's to package all theses changes. Until the eo interfaces are done the cost of releasing is high, so releasing every 3 months for release sake when there isn't many new features such as the last release of last year that didn't happen doesn't make sense. If we are now at a point where there is significant new things then lets release now, if there is more significant new things in 3 months lets release again then, if there is no new things in 3 months releasing again then probably also doesn't make sense. So in short, if we want to go back to 3 monthly releases lets get eo interfaces done so releases stop being as much effort for a bunch of people. Cheers, from the guy who gets to deal with the mess at the other end. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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