Re: buddy for two externals issues? -- was: Re: locking externals

Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Neels Janosch Hofmeyr wrote:
>> If we adhere to the 6 months schedule, 1.7 is in June. That's
>> roughly eight
>> weeks from now :P
>
> Huh? 1.6.0 shipped less than a month ago. Six months from March 20
> is Sept. 20, not June. I'm personally planning and hoping to have wc-
> ng code complete by the end of August, and hope to have wc-ng on trunk
> usable as the default within a month (though that may be optimistic).

Oh.

I thought it worked like the Ubuntu cycle has been so far, so that it's the
same month every year. Then again, Ubuntu releases on time.

But what's the use of a 6 months schedule if we drag each release,
effectively making it an 8.67 months schedule? People can't rely on that any
more than before, can they?

On the other hand it doesn't make sense to rush releases, shortening the
effective time between shipping one and kicking off the next release, so
that we're constantly busy releasing.

So maybe it would make sense to have a supposedly reliable date-fixed
schedule with a reasonable time period, say, 9 months, which takes into
account the time it takes to soak a number of release candidates...

Just thinking.
~Neels

------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1676293