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Re: Periodical releases
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Dave Abrahams |
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Re: Periodical releases |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:36:24 -0500 |
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on Wed Jan 04 2012, Chong Yidong <cyd-AT-gnu.org> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Is it not possible to have thorougness and high quality with more
>> frequent releases of smaller scope? Maybe the problem (if there is
>> one) is that trunk is allowed to drift too far from a releasable
>> state. I'm just saying.
>
> Features like bidi can't really be added piecemeal, and this goes back
> to Eli's point about bit-rotting feature trees.
>
> Frankly, I'm not convinced there's any problem. Emacs 23.3 was released
> less than one year ago, and we are already well into the pretest for
> 24.1. Doing considerably better would require resources we don't have.
> Note that all those projects that are being held up as models for their
> periodic release systems have people working on them full time!
For what it's worth, Boost has no full-time people, and it releases four
times yearly. It wasn't always that way, though: for a while there we
had a period of painfully slow multi-year releases.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
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