Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
> Andrew Savory wrote:
>
>>
>> Sounds good ... the problem we have currently with "ship it when
>> it's ready" is we rarely agree on when it is ready ;-) The only
>> thing I'm wondering about is if every two months isn't a little fast
>> for the current rate of change in the 2.1* series?
>
>
> A main point about shipping every second month is that we create a
> habit to deliver regulary and in time and that we will improve our
> routines so that we make it easy to do the shipping and assesing the
> quality of the release. If not that much have happened since the last
> release, it will make it easier to ship the next one and it makes it
> less dramatic for the users to uppgrade.
>
> Currently when we ship rather selldom, people want to do a lot of last
> minute additions as they know that they have to wait half a year to
> make it part of a relase otherwise. These additions makes testing
> harder and makes the deadlines slip.
>
> Furthermore the only way to make features really stable is to release
> them and get "real" usage, user feedback, bug fixes and extensions on
> them.
These are really very good points.
Sylvain
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