New Bugzilla Roadmap - cycle time too long

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 06:03 -0800, Stuart Donaldson wrote:
> 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.

	Yes, that's true.

> Also, the roadmap does not show anything of value to the end user until 
> July with the addition of the very popular custom fields.

	There will be various things of value to the end user; those aren't the
only bugs or enhancements we're going to fix. :-) This is an open-source
project after all. People are always patching stuff all *over* the
place. :-)

> 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.

	Except that it turns into longer than two months. Momentum is what gets
us released, but we lose momentum during a freeze. It's an interesting
balance.

> 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.

	I think that's something that we'd consider at that time, anyhow. It's
what I would want to do, if possible.

	And in any case, there will always be dev. releases available.

	-Max
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