Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 planning

[John Davis]

On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 23:08, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> I think I am the one responding here with the least amount of
> professional release engineering experience and in speaking to John and
> reading over these threads some ideas came into my mind.
>
> (1) Stick with the quarterly-release schedule until at least 2004.3 (the
> last one of 2004). After that point, or a good time period before,
> decide what we're going to do for >= 2005.
> (2) If we stick with quarterly releases, change the viewpoint that even
> releases (.0, .2) are NEW FEATURE releases. There needs to be some
> compelling reason to release here. Maybe a db-backend portage (just an
> idea) or some new from-the-ground-up feature. The odd (.1,.3) releases
> incorporate bug fixes, typos, and other non-new-feature inclusions. In
> my mind, this doesnt force devs/releng/infra to create totally new ideas
> for every release. Come up with something original before the even
> release, and refine it in the following odd quarter.
>
> If we decide as 2005 nears to scrap the quarterly release system, maybe
> go with tri-yearly or biannual releases. It just gives more time to the
> release to come up with new ideas and new inclusions.
>
> Ridicule, deride, praise,
> -Jeff

Jeff - 
The direction of your ideas is definitely a good one. I am very open to
this course of action.

Cheers,
//zhen
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