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
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