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David Miller wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Stuart Donaldson wrote on 1/26/06 8:51 AM:
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<pre wrap="">So with an end of year release, has development gone away from the
earlier goal of shorter release cycles? I thought the goal was every 6
months or so, with features being managed in order to hit the window...
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We delayed freezing for 2.22 because 2.20 released late. We're about to
reopen the trunk for 2.24 development, however, we're now at the point
where if we stay on the original schedule, we have 4 weeks after the
trunk opens before we freeze for 2.24. There's several BIG things very
close on the horizon, and 4 weeks is too short. Maybe June or July-ish
would be a good thing, but sticking with the previously scheduled March
15th seems like a bad idea at this point.
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The slip should not need to accumulate resulting in a 4 week open
period. Give yourself 8 or 12 weeks if you think that would give
enough time to land some bigger things, then stabilize them.<br>
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Actually, that reminds me. Why does the trunk freeze during all the
rc's? why not at the first rc, create a support branch for bug fixes,
and then let the development continue on the trunk? Is it that you are
trying to force people to work with the rc in order to ring it out, and
you want to encourage people that might be interested in the new stuff
to ring out the old first?<br>
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-Stuart-<br>
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