merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

Lubomir I. Ivanov neolit123 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 15 15:48:04 UTC 2013


On 16 December 2013 01:40, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> Hehe...
>
> that caught your attention, didn't it?
>
> I am thinking of switching to a time based release methodology. There
> are a couple of weird obscure open source projects that have dabbled
> with this and apparently this is working well for them... :-)
>
> So for 4.1 this is mainly a crazy idea, but starting with 4.2 I really
> want to do this.
>
> Something like: a 4 weeks window to merge new features after a release.
> Then 8 weeks of bug fixing, documenting, translating, and finally a week
> to do the release. Which gives us quarterly releases.
>
> Comments (besides the obvious "you're on drugs, Dirk")?
>

i think i like it, because this way if someone can contribute he/she
will in the given time frame; and we have a better prediction over the
patches.
...if not, a feature or translation (or whatever) will be scheduled
for the next release. ;)

lubomir
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