Ivanovic, could you make a publicly accessible ical somewhere that we
could all include in our agendas ? that would be handy

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Mark de Wever <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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