Re: 2008 Debate of Build and Release

2008-04-05 Thread david
one thing to be very careful of with a date-based schedule is that as you near the release data you need to be extremely intolorent of regressions. it's useually better to delay a feature becouse you have to revert a patch to fix a regression then it is to break someone's existing setup becouse

2008 Debate of Build and Release

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Merriam
Here's my write-up from the April Fools memo (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/April_Fool_2008_Build_Process) and Mini-conference presentation. I'll get something on the wiki shortly, probably at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/2008_Debate_of_Build_and_Release. I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks, Charles