Eric Siegerman writes:
>
> Why is it so long between official releases? I'm not sure, but
> here's one possibility: it takes quite a while to test a version
> well enough to declare it stable enough to be worthy of
> official-release status (this part's no guess :-) But the world
> won't hold still; people keep committing new (stability-risking)
> code, effectively forcing the beta-test period to start over.
> And indeed, the people in a position to declare a feature freeze
> are themselves too anxious to squeeze in one more thing first.
Nope. From the time of the first official test release to the final
release is usually just a couple of weeks, and there is a feature freeze
in effect for the whole time. The reason it was so long between 1.9 and
1.10 was because of adding lots of new features, the reason it has been
so long between 1.10 and 1.11 is because the development environment has
been in disarray because of the transition from Cyclic to SourceGear to
OpenAvenue. In neither case were there extremely pressing bugs that
really needed to be fixed quickly.
-Larry Jones
Years from now when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in
prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat. -- Calvin
