Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 11:34 UTC, submitted by matej
The open source world is currently debating the merits - if any - of synchronising the release schedules of several of the bigger, key projects that make up a Linux distribution. The discussion was started by Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, and continued as a back and forth between the Ubuntu leader and KDE's Aaron Seigo, but of course other members of the community discussed right along on blogs and other venues. Sander, developer of Coccinella (an open-source Jabber client) provides some insights into the whole discussion.
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RE[2]: Don't - please !!!
by sbergman27 on Mon 30th Jun 2008 18:10
in reply to "RE: Don't - please !!!"
Member since:2005-07-24
...as opposed to half baked apps getting a few quick and dirty patches and rolled into a distros release cycle?
Yeah. Is failure to release on a schedule a good release policy? Or poor release planning? Good release planning starts when the feature set is determined, and before the first patch goes into the dev repository. Resistance to a project schedule is often a sign that the project devs have a poor level of discipline.
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2006-02-05
...as opposed to half baked apps getting a few quick and dirty patches and rolled into a distros release cycle?