What next?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 11:37 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> So my answer would be "if FC5 deadlines don't give you enough time to 
> complete a given piece of work, target FC6 instead".
>
> On the other hand, someone was also pointing out that there are some
> pieces that really need to be worked on every single release, so it's more
> complicated than that. Maybe we need to try to decouple development work
> from the release cycle a bit more. What if we could make it so that
> hardcore development work could go on throughout all six months of the
> development cycle?

Except that I can guarantee there will be things that have to be done
for FC5 as well.  And splitting development efforts across branches when
the resources are already at the point of scarcity helps nothing.

Jeremy