On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 16:49, Russ Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote: > Matthias Julius writes: > > I am not saying we should hold development until all translations are > > complete. I would just like to give translators a chance to get their > > translation into a released JOSM. > > JOSM has never been released. > > Or, to put it another way, the JOSM release process is broken. JOSM > is never released. People are simply told that a certain SVN version > is better than other versions, and that version gets compiled for > them. That's IT. As a former release manager for several projects, > this frustrates the bejeezus out of me.
(I'm not a JOSM dev) I think JOSM's release process is awesome. Projects like JOSM that do monthly releases tend to constantly keep the code in what's basically a ready-to-release state. I actually don't use the releases, I just track trunk. But the releases aren't just an arbitrary monthly snapshot. The devs make an effort to close any remaining blocker bugs before a release, but of course with everyone being a volunteer that doesn't always get done optimally. Of course there are some things that could be done better, like a translation freeze a few days before release. But now we only have 8 languages with >85% complete translations, so that's a relatively recent problem. Small-ish projects like JOSM can actually become much worse for their users if they do "proper" releases. I.e. something where there's a maintenance branch that gets maintained in paralell, and things only get merged there once they're sure to work. Doing stuff like that takes a lot of manpower. _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
