Agreed. Let's push it out and bake in the doc process for the next release.
Justin - you are in charge of defining the release requirements for the follow-up docs release. Can we agree on this? Let's make this release available by tomorrow so Vijay and I can talk about the just-released 3.5. -JM On Apr 15, 2014 1:58 PM, "Jeff Darcy" <jda...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Is there _actual pressure_ from a defined source (who I can speak to), or > > is it something such as "we're really overdue already", etc? > > | > That's setting the bar a bit high, don't you think? Those of us at > Summit have all had the dubious pleasure of telling users that the > feature they asked about isn't available in a release yet. Should we > follow up that bad news by asking them to go out of their way to contact > some random guy who's not there, or sign a statement spelling out > exactly what effect lack of that feature had on their decision not to > deploy GlusterFS? Should you provide similar proof regarding your > claims about lack of documentation? Of course not. > > We all get that poor documentation hurts the project. Some of us have > even tried to do something about that. Most of us also realize that > releases dragging on too long *also* hurt the project in a variety of > ways. Having to maintain an active current-release branch in addition > to master is a drag on development. Users are ill served by being > unable to get fixes for actual bugs in easily consumable form. We're > dealing with a tradeoff here, not something where one side gets to put > on a white hat and jam the black hat on somebody else. > > I'm deliberately not taking a position on whether or not we should > release with the documentation in its current state. All I'm saying > is that making inequitable demands of one another, or trying to > portray one another as failing to appreciate users' needs, hurts > the project even more than either poor documentation or late > releases. That's an issue on which I *am* willing to take a stand. > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
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