I have been lurking for some time, I just want to comment on the release-based schedule thing which is a way of developing I'm a huge fan of.
On Saturday 21 July 2007 2:51:51 pm Rex Dieter wrote: > > For anyone who missed Mark Shuttleworth's akademy talk... he stressed > > the absolute importance of regular, reliable release cycles. Not > > sticking to release schedules sucks. And I fully agree with just about all he said on that topic. One thing of importance is that he immediately conceded that KDE4 is a different beast altogether and this idea doesn't work for 4.0 This is the core point; > > Don't hold releases hostage for > > features. Again, fully agreed. But this is not about features; KDE4.0 is (still) about heavy refactoring and reinstating basic functionality before being able to release (a beta). The reason why the concept that Mark proposed can work is that you can just remove or not release a feature which is not ready. And thus avoid a schedule slip because that feature needs more work. But, unfortunately, we can't just leave out kcontrol or plasma because its not ready. So the release schedule must slip. I'd love to see the idea of timed releases based on optional-feature-inclusion in the future. But unfortunately Fedora will have to wait until "its ready" on this one. Cheers! -- Thomas Zander
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