Hi Justin, The fact that your message is a plea rather than an announcement makes it rather clear why I felt I had to leave OSG and move my sim to Metro. It also explains to me why I felt I had to add myself to this list at the same time -- self protection.
If your release cycle is 4 months shouldn't there be a hard and fast feature freeze at the end of the first month? And there should be no back-talk or exceptions. Bug fixes ought to be just about 3/4 of the effort anyway. What OpenSim needs is credibility as a stable working system, not more features. If it''s a choice between what is going on now and having no development on OpenSim, I think I'd rather see no development. I have no way of stopping the badness from happening at my end other than complaining about it. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <jjusti...@googlemail.com > wrote: > Hi folks. For the past 3 years, we've had a significant OpenSimulator > release at about 4 to 8 month intervals. > > As the last major release (0.7.6) was in September 2013, we are due for > another, and this seems like a reasonable point. From my perspective, > releases drive a very significant level of OpenSimulator adoption. It's > also the case that I may have a limited window of time to act as release > manager, after which things may get very busy for me for an extended period. > > There was some disagreement over how the last release was handled, > particularly over the period when I asked that developers take care to > leave master stable. However, it's quite hard for me to see how this could > be done in another way without significantly more manpower. Even when the > release is branched, if the release branch and master diverge significantly > (or master is broken) then a lot of the testing done by users is lost - > very few people actually pick up and test release candidates. > > So unless there is disagreement, I'm going to ask that people take care to > keep master stable until the end of April or release, whichever occurs > first. This certainly does not mean a halt to development on master, it's > just a request that people take a common sense approach to holding off from > putting in destabilising or very complicated changes for a while, unless > these are to fix significant bugs or regressions. > > I'm very happy to hear alternatives, though I would also need people to > help if they involve more work. In any case, Robert has very kindly > volunteered to look at some of the current regressions but more help is > always very welcome. > > The current regressions or very major bugs have a 0.8 target in Mantis. > As with every release so far, only major regressions are guaranteed to > receive some sort of attention, where the answer may still be WONTFIX for > this release. > > Regards, > > -- > Justin Clark-Casey (justincc) > OSVW Consulting > http://justincc.org > http://twitter.com/justincc > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > -- No essence. No permanence. No perfection. Only action.
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