___/ On Mon 15 May 2006 12:21:50 BST, [ Robert Deaton ] wrote : \___
On 5/15/06, Roy Schestowitz <r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip /> A decline from half a dozen commits per day to just 1 or 2
is noticeable.
I think this view is based on only the relatively small subset of time
you have watched commits. Every few months, after a major stable
release has been out a while and some of the larger features for the
next release have been started, commits slowly trickle down. Following
this period of slowness, usually comes a burst of activity directly
prior to a release. After the release is a second burst of activity,
fixing all the bugs in the prior release, and after that's taken care
of, is one last burst of activity on the new branch with all the new
features that have been enqueue during the test-release-fix cycles.
Following that, we're where we are right now, in the lull between two
releases.
I appreciate your response, which was encouraging. As you rightly pointed
out, I have been watching commits on a daily basis _only since their
arrival_ as mail digests. Trac likewise. I also did ponder these points
which you alluded to.
Call me paranoid perhaps, but I dread see any project that I use (or am
affiliated with) losing steam. It has happened several times before and
the cost of migrations, time-wise, is high. I am glad to hear that
WordPress does not fall under this category, by any means. (Bigger and
better)^tm things always come in the way of the team, but I think it's
important to remember the origins of everything and the community that
very much depends on the seminal word -- Wordpress in this particular
case.
Best wishes,
Roy
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