On 10/2/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Unless I misinterpreted something, I think Elliotte was
> referring to the need for constant vigorous development
> where testing milestones are reached and future extension
> carries on simultaneously (not only bugfixes for older
> supported releases). A bit like stable and unstable Debian,
> or even the Kernel Mm tree that is maintained by Andrew
> Morton. I suppose that Fedora and RHEL would be another
> example...
Yes, that's correct. The main example I was thinking of was
Firefox/Mozilla. I don't think work on new features necessarily needs to
stop just because the upcoming release is in lockdown mode.
These approaches are responses to need in those projects. For example
the needs of QA and localization to get their work done after
development has completed, a developer to work on something that will
not be ready for months, or a marketing team that needs releases to
launch in favorable market conditions.
Lets demonstrate the need before planning the perfect project.
Having as much of the development community focused on a release is
often the best way to get that release done and move on to working on
the next fun thing.
Thank you,
Lloyd
PS. Linux distributions are generally poor comparison points because a
large part is its role as a publisher of other projects, and its
dependencies on those other projects schedules.
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