New Bugzilla Roadmap - cycle time too long

[Stuart Donaldson]

In looking at the roadmap, and building on my earlier comment, I think 
moving away from a goal of 6 month delivery cycles is a bad idea.

Also, the roadmap does not show anything of value to the end user until 
July with the addition of the very popular custom fields.  All of the 
other stuff appears to be just internal improvements.  Important yes, 
but an end user doesn't care about them.  They want features.

I disagree with the statement that 6 months is a short time, it is a 
question of project management, and discipline.  Shorter, cycles means 
more vitality and interest.  In fact, I wouldn't view it as a 6 month 
open period, but a 6 month cycle with 2 months frozen for 
stabilization.  I encourage a release in June or July.  Simple text 
custom fields are already in good shape as I recall.   In and of itself 
is worthy of a release.

-Stuart-

Frédéric Buclin wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> You will probably be interested by our new Bugzilla roadmap for the 
> next 9 months. If everything goes well, we will release Bugzilla 3.0 
> (instead of Bugzilla 2.24) at the end of this year:
>
> http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Roadmap
>
> This roadmap will probably change a bit in the coming weeks, 
> especially deadlines, but that's what we would like to see being done.
>
> Feel free to comment if I forgot something important in the list; I 
> wrote it around midnight. :)
>
>
> Frédéric Buclin
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