On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:48:35PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > David White <[email protected]>: > > Personally I would love it if we could get our release cycle down to 6 > > months instead of 12 (more like 14) months. > > > > I think that one of the problems with our current release cycle is that > > people begin with thinking that 12 months is forever to develop > > something, so they do nothing at all. It is somewhat demoralizing to > > think of developing something and not see it in a stable version for 12 > > months! > > > > Then time runs short, and people scramble: "If I don't get my feature in > > NOW then it won't make it for 12 whole months!!" > > > > If we could reduce the release cycle to 6 months, these effects would be > > lessened. > > > > I don't see why we can't be agile enough to have a 6 month release > > cycle, and would love it if we could achieve this. > > I strongly agree with all of this.
I more than willing to try the 6 month cycle another benefit to try it now is that the work of the GSoC students will be released shortly after they finished it. I'd suggest to start the feature freeze shortly after the 17th of August (GSoC deadline) and then focus on the release. I really would like to make a decision about this, so I can start to plan what I want to do before 1.8. (Half a year is not enough to finished the GUI, but not confident a year would be either.) -- Regards, Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
