Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Release of 1.4 and freezing svn for some hours and 1.4 policy

2008-03-02 Thread Nils Kneuper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nils Kneuper schrieb: | Looks like my other mail was lost, so here again the remainder about the deadline: | | | * deadline for 1.4.0 commits: Sunday, 2nd March, 1pm (gmt+1) | | That is ~11h from now. Commit your stuff that is meant to get into

[Wesnoth-dev] 12-month release interval considered harmful

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I think we should shorten our stable-release interval to 6 months. This is not a conclusion I have arrived at casually or quickly. I've been observing this project for nine months now. I think it suffers from some of the well-known problems associated with long release intervals, including (1)

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Release of 1.4 and freezing svn for some hours and 1.4 policy

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark de Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do get the impression the rate of reported bugs is increasing and I expect quite some bugs to be discovered in 1.4. That being said; I do like to get and keep the bug count low but I think it will be hard. I'm a little more optimistic, which is

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] 12-month release interval considered harmful

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark de Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:06:48AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: I think we should shorten our stable-release interval to 6 months. Personally I think the current cycle of about one year is rather nice. A release costs quite some resources for final

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2008-03-02 Thread Benoit Timbert
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:22:29AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Mark de Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:06:48AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: I think we should shorten our stable-release interval to 6 months. Personally I think the current cycle of about one year is

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Release of 1.4 and freezing svn for some hours and 1.4 policy

2008-03-02 Thread Nils Kneuper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nils Kneuper schrieb: | * deadline for 1.4.0 commits: Sunday, 2nd March, 1pm (gmt+1) Turns run out! | * trunk frozen + start of release stuff: Sunday, 2nd March, 2pm (gmt+1) Turns run out! | * trunk free for 1.4+1.5 commits (not branched off yet):

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] your mail

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Benoit Timbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In fact, unlike 1.2 and 1.0, none of our translation teams could manage to get 100% of the strings translated. Maybe with a shorter cycle we'll have less strings will be added/changed so it would be easier to finish the translation. Btw i thing this problem

[Wesnoth-dev] Translations and the release cycle time

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So if short release cycles mean lots of campaign churn, expect reduced translation activity. I don't think these two things are coupled. For one thing, I think most of the campaign churn we're going to see in the foreseeable future has already

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Translations and the release cycle time

2008-03-02 Thread David Philippi
Am Sonntag 02 März 2008 schrieb Nils Kneuper: And one requirement before anything gets lifted from now on is 2 complete months with the *revised* texts in wescamp. I do not want to see such Just to make sure... 1. WesCamp-i18n is currently not supported well by g.w.o ... 2. Developing

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Release of 1.4 and freezing svn for some hours and 1.4 policy

2008-03-02 Thread Nils Kneuper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nils Kneuper schrieb: | Nils Kneuper schrieb: | | * deadline for 1.4.0 commits: Sunday, 2nd March, 1pm (gmt+1) | | Turns run out! | | | * trunk frozen + start of release stuff: Sunday, 2nd March, 2pm (gmt+1) | | Turns run out! | | | * trunk free for

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Translations and the release cycle time

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Nils Kneuper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And one requirement before anything gets lifted from now on is 2 complete months with the *revised* texts in wescamp. I do not want to see such excessive stringchanges to happen again when the content is already in mainline. Fair enough. -- a

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Translations and the release cycle time

2008-03-02 Thread jeremy rosen
This is a basic idea tought on the fly. 1) Any mainline content is a no-go zone for translators for the first half of the development cycle. That is you can translate things, but they might get changed and reverted at any moment due to various reasons. 2) At the half point campaign