Martin Spott writes: > "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As time permits, I might start fiddling around with pre-release work > > for the next major release, but I'll hold off of an "official" release > > for at least a week or two probably. > > I'd consider two weeks not to be enough for a release. There are so > many details in FlightGear that it's a very time consuming job to > figure out how they _should_ work. Things change that fast that they > need to settle a bit (and sometime need fixes) before they can find > their way into the manual (BTW, I'm on vacation next week so I need > some extra time ....),
I'm going to push forward with some "pre" releases. I very much appreciate the documentation issues. Perhaps in a week or two or three if we are ready for an official release and the documentation isn't quite there, we could go ahead anyway, and then do a 0.9.3b release with updated documentation ... (?) Part of the problem from a release manager point of view is that if we wait for every loose end to be tidied up, we would never have a release -- not ever. My challenge is to figure out where to draw the line and balance forward motion against ticking some people off. I usually manage to make at least a few people angry, but please know that no offense is intended ... I'm just trying to balance multiple conflicting demands. I also appreciate that not every one will agree with exactly where and when I draw the line, and I guess that's the way it goes. I'm a big target out here so fire away if you must. I usually keep my asbestos gear within reach, but if you hurry you might be able to sneak in a few shots before I get fully zipped up. ;-) Also, I hope people remember that I am doing this in my spare time as a volunteer. I have a full time job and a family so my time is often very limited, and that limits what I can do and how many loose ends I can keep track of myself ... sometimes if I get a spare chunk of time, I just have to go with it because if I wait a week it might be another 2-3 weeks or more before I can get back to something I started. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
