https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/2430 is a perfect example of
why we need *more* and *faster* feedback

we keep doing things like that and i think we should reexamine on how we
want to handle those
i am very disappointed with our current process, the feedback speed is
very sub-par and it shows
i want to see, more and smaller releases so we can get more detailed
feedback

i also want to see smaller and more self-contained changes

i want the time back where, when pytest breaks, the user can fix it
(its what got me to pytest in the first place)

and i don't see it coming back if we keep doing what we currently do

-- Ronny

Am 21.05.2017 um 17:24 schrieb Florian Bruhin:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:42:29AM +0000, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:49 PM Ronny Pfannschmidt <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 14.04.2017 14:17, Florian Bruhin wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 05:51:34PM +0000, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
>>>>> What if we instead of considering features, we released a new minor
>>> version
>>>>> periodically, for say every month or two? We could adopt the same for
>>> bug
>>>>> fix releases, like each two weeks.
>>>> FWIW what GitLab[1] does is a monthly feature release, and patch
>>>> releases whenever needed. I don't think it's a good idea to have a fixed
>>>> release cycle for patches, but it sounds like it could work quite well
>>>> for feature releases indeed.
>> I'm curious, why do you think it is not a good idea to have a fixed or
>> semi-fixed release cycle for patches?
> Sorry for the late answer, somehow that mail made itself comfortable in
> my inbox for a while ;)
>
> I just think it doesn't scale well. If we do something which breaks a
> lot of testsuites we don't want to wait with doing a patch release - and
> at the same time if we just have some doc fix or even a change which
> isn't user-facing at all, doing a release just causes unnecessary work.
> Even if we automated our part, releases always mean work for downstreams
> like distributions or users with pinned dependencies.
>
> Because of that, I think it makes more sense to be a bit more flexible
> with patch releases.
>
> Florian
>
>
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