Mark de Wever <ko...@xs4all.nl>:
> > I think the only way we're going to get
> > more user testing is by shipping "stable" releases more often, which
> > is to say seriously shortening our development cycle.
>
> Well the goal was to start to think about how to achieve that wish.
> Since I've no real ideas about what we could do to improve the situation
> I just wanted to start the discussion.
And quite rightly. This is a good time to have it.
> I'm not sure whether the shortening the development cycle really helps
> (I think not) but we could try it. The last time we also discussed the
> idea of a half year cycle and rejected it. But since the current model
> also doesn't 'work' in this regard we can at least try it. So if we aim
> for half a year that would be the middle of September, which would also
> fit with gsoc (if we get in).
I have also, independently, been thinking that September 2009 would
make a good target date for 1.8. That timing seems about right for
both of the major 1.7 projects I know are already scheduled to have
landed and gotten some testing. Those are:
* The full GUI II rewrite
* Embedded lua for WML.
* Finishing (and probably mainlining) Delfador's Memoirs
My own plans for the 1.7 cycle are up in the air. I have a proposal
for a new game-threaded save organization I'd like to do, but that
is blocked on someone cleaning up/refactoring the horrible mess in
the engine around game-state saves. (I have truied to understand
that code; it just makes my head hurt...)
> I thought I've seen several commits aimed at 1.6 postponed/reverted due
> to the string freeze, which is lifted once 1.6 has been tagged.
That's true. One of them was mine.
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