On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:32:04AM -0600, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Justin Erenkrantz <justin@erenkrantz.com> writes:
> > For x.x.0 releases with all of the RCs, it's actually a *lot* of work.
> > Ask Dave. Patch releases are much easier to cut as the initial
> > testing has been done on the minor. But, declaring a trunk version as
> > stable, IMHO, places a lot of work on the RM to try to understand what
> > changed and where to look for new problems.
>
> I think that's the most constructive thing anyone's said yet:
>
> "Ask Dave" :-)
>
> Yes, let's. Dave? How do you feel about this?
Is the question asked a means to prove or disprove the various points
of view? I don't think that is constructive. It is an interesting
question, but I hope the result is not used to say "nyeah. see? I told
you so!" :-)
The load on the RM is one factor. There is also the amount of time
that the development community gets to spend on the next release(*),
expecting of users, and more.
(*) if some devs work on release and get shut out of contributing to
the next release, are you making them happy? "But they have a choice!"
you might respond. They certainly do, but sometimes they will choose
an answer that is responsible rather than fun ("somebody needs to work
on stabilizing"). And for a developer who enjoys working on SVN to
ship *features* to be cut out (due to timing) from that enjoyment is
probably not a good thing for anyone (certainly that dev, but possibly
the project in terms of the dev's future contributions when it no
longer becomes fun).
Cheers,
-g
--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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