On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:18 -0800, Peter Jones wrote: > Clearly the release cycle has a number of facets..The speed of required > adoption for software products,phase of the development cycle, and the speed > of development afforded by internal development resources.In todays world > everyone wants now!They love trying things new as soon as they come from the > developers.The marketing question...how can you keep your community engaged, > motivated, and loyal? Continually produce innovation and change ? Frequent > cycles are good for business....
As someone who's been doing Unix since before Solaris existed, I disagree. Releases should not be confused with development. That Sun was offering support for OpenSolaris indicates an intention for it to be deployed in production environments. What counts most in production is 1) Stability, and 2) Reliability. Stability means less headaches and lower TOC and reliability, specifically w.r.t. releases happening on schedule mean that managers can better schedule internal resources, etc. My $0.02 -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
