On 09/06/2009 08:13 AM, Durk Talsma wrote: > Hi James, > > I'm certainly open to the idea, but I don't think I'm able to manage that, > since I'm both primarily responsible for organizing FSWeekend, and have been > coordinating the releases in the last few years as well. Having two deadlines > come up at the same time, in addition to teaching four courses (of which two > are new -> lots of preparation), a deadline for a grant proposal, and a major > review paper (both Sept 30), as well as serving on a PhD defense committee > and > preparing a symposium talk (Nov 2 and 3 respectively), I'm not sure whether > I'm alive by the start of FSWeekend. :-) > > For this reason, my personal preference would be to continue regular > development until FSWeekend, than allow us a few weeks for bugfixing and Beta > testing. That would put the release around christmas time, which would be a > lot more of an easy time for me. > > I agree with Heiko (see earlier post in this thread) that we should have a > more careful beta testing period. Last year we had a few last minute > check-ins > that turned out to bite us. Let's try to circumvent that. > I'd prefer to shoot for having a strong beta to show at FSWeekend, then do a release around Christmas. I suppose this implies a "feature freeze" in the release around the 1st of October. My preference would be to do the release like we did the maintenance release -- from a git branch that contains only selected patch sets from CVS.
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