What next?

[Elliot Lee]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, seth vidal <skvidal at 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