[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The knowledge that the new version will be released on a certain date
will comfort most users enough to simply wait (which might also delay
the discovery of more bugs).
Exactly. So in order for these bugs to ever be found, there has to
be an official release with no promise of a rapid follow-on. Tragic,
but true.
I'm not sure how much work you go through with each release....
It takes about 1 days to do a thorough release. Sometimes I cut
corners. Notice, for example, that on the current download page
some of the products are still at 3.3.8. Doing a release is
a non-trivial undertaking.
John Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We were influenced by Deming's work on total quality. He advocates
fixing each problem the moment it is identified and taking great pains
never to ship product with defects. That way quality is maximized, The
short term invonvenience is swamped by the long terms advantages.
In some since, all changes to SQLite are released immediately. Anybody
can download the latest changes from CVS or look at the timeline
(http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/timeline) see the changes and download
patches. So source code is released continuously. All an official
release does is increment the version number and provide binaries for
people who don't are can't compile for themselves. So "release" in
the SQLite and open-source world means something very different than
"release" for commercial software. In the commerical world, the changes
are unavailable until released. For SQLite, a release merely means that
the changes are available in a more convenient packaging.
How do these varying definitions of "release" effect this argument,
do you suppose?
--
D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The maintaining of a perpetual code base incorporating the latest fixes
maximizes quality. On that basis all I can say is keep doing what you
are doing now. Perhaps a sophistication would be to make it clearer
that significant releases are tied basically to enhancements rather than
bug fixes and CVS is the best source for software.
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