Since we are about to produce a new release I propose a change to the Geany workflow.
More regular releases.
Acknowledging that Geany hasn't the number of contributors that say firefox has, monthly would seem too often, so instead I propose an 8 week schedule:
- week 4 feature freeze, alpha release for testing - week 6 string freeze, beta release for testing - week 7 release candidate - week 8 THE RELEASE!!!
Then we don't need to be so careful about changes, because problems only last for a couple of months until the next release, and since only a few new features will be added each release nobody will feel that they have lost much if they have to downgrade due to bugs.
I therefore propose that the eight week period should start today April 1.
Happy upgrading.
Cheers Lex
On 01/04/14 00:49, Lex Trotman wrote:
Since we are about to produce a new release I propose a change to the Geany workflow.
More regular releases.
Acknowledging that Geany hasn't the number of contributors that say firefox has, monthly would seem too often, so instead I propose an 8 week schedule:
- week 4 feature freeze, alpha release for testing
- week 6 string freeze, beta release for testing
- week 7 release candidate
- week 8 THE RELEASE!!!
Then we don't need to be so careful about changes, because problems only last for a couple of months until the next release, and since only a few new features will be added each release nobody will feel that they have lost much if they have to downgrade due to bugs.
I therefore propose that the eight week period should start today April 1.
Yeah, very great idea. And of course we must do the same for Geany-Plugins!
Muhahaha, well done Lex. Nice one :).
Regards, Enrico
On 3 April 2014 17:31, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On 01/04/14 00:49, Lex Trotman wrote:
Since we are about to produce a new release I propose a change to the Geany workflow.
More regular releases.
Acknowledging that Geany hasn't the number of contributors that say firefox has, monthly would seem too often, so instead I propose an 8 week schedule:
- week 4 feature freeze, alpha release for testing
- week 6 string freeze, beta release for testing
- week 7 release candidate
- week 8 THE RELEASE!!!
Then we don't need to be so careful about changes, because problems only last for a couple of months until the next release, and since only a few new features will be added each release nobody will feel that they have lost much if they have to downgrade due to bugs.
I therefore propose that the eight week period should start today April 1.
Yeah, very great idea. And of course we must do the same for Geany-Plugins!
Oh, I wouldn't *DARE* tell that to Frank. :-D
So better drop the whole idea :)
Cheers Lex
Muhahaha, well done Lex. Nice one :).
Regards, Enrico
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Am 03.04.2014 08:44, schrieb Lex Trotman:
On 3 April 2014 17:31, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On 01/04/14 00:49, Lex Trotman wrote:
Since we are about to produce a new release I propose a change to the Geany workflow.
More regular releases.
Acknowledging that Geany hasn't the number of contributors that say firefox has, monthly would seem too often, so instead I propose an 8 week schedule:
- week 4 feature freeze, alpha release for testing
- week 6 string freeze, beta release for testing
- week 7 release candidate
- week 8 THE RELEASE!!!
Then we don't need to be so careful about changes, because problems only last for a couple of months until the next release, and since only a few new features will be added each release nobody will feel that they have lost much if they have to downgrade due to bugs.
I therefore propose that the eight week period should start today April 1.
Yeah, very great idea. And of course we must do the same for Geany-Plugins!
Oh, I wouldn't *DARE* tell that to Frank. :-D
Pfff.... ;) Maybe also don't bother hyperair with ...
Cheers, Frank
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:42:15AM +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote:
Am 03.04.2014 08:44, schrieb Lex Trotman:
On 3 April 2014 17:31, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On 01/04/14 00:49, Lex Trotman wrote:
Since we are about to produce a new release I propose a change to the Geany workflow.
More regular releases.
Acknowledging that Geany hasn't the number of contributors that say firefox has, monthly would seem too often, so instead I propose an 8 week schedule:
- week 4 feature freeze, alpha release for testing
- week 6 string freeze, beta release for testing
- week 7 release candidate
- week 8 THE RELEASE!!!
Then we don't need to be so careful about changes, because problems only last for a couple of months until the next release, and since only a few new features will be added each release nobody will feel that they have lost much if they have to downgrade due to bugs.
I therefore propose that the eight week period should start today April 1.
Yeah, very great idea. And of course we must do the same for Geany-Plugins!
Oh, I wouldn't *DARE* tell that to Frank. :-D
Pfff.... ;) Maybe also don't bother hyperair with ...
Hmm? Sounds good to me. Debian's also moving to an 8-week release cycle[1] in case you didn't know. Would be great to have all our upstreams sync up with this.