On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu> said:
> What about stretching out the dev cycle from 3months dev + 3 months of
> testing to something more like 6 months of dev + 3 months of testing.
How about deciding what the major goals of the next release should be
(within reason of course), estimating about how long it should take to
meet those goals, and then add in whatever else seems reasonable in the
given time frame?
Because the decision was explicitly made when the Fedora project started
to do releases at regular intervals rather than based on feature-driven
milestones. This is the model Gnome has used with a good bit of success.
It avoids the Debian "work on it for three years until it's perfect"
syndrome, because as this thread is already showing, everyone wants "just
a little bit longer" to get their pet feature just right.
Best,
-- Elliot