On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 8 Feb 2011, at 17:32, Noah Slater wrote: > >> >> On 8 Feb 2011, at 16:14, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> >>> Still, the problem I have is that it seems like there is a tendency to >>> make releases large; it seems like there's little control against devs >>> wanting to add their "one more thing". Particularly for bugfix >>> releases; from 1.0.1 it took almost 6 months for 1.0.2 to get >>> released. In between, there were a little under 100 revisions on the >>> 1.0.x branch, presumably most of those fixing bugs users could >>> actually run into. It seems valuable to me if the community could have >>> gotten some of these fixes sooner. >> >> I need someone else to weigh in on this, but I believe the reason was >> because of a few critical bugs that were being worked on. And not, as you >> suggest, because we were suffering from a Just One More Thing problem. I'd >> really need Jan or Chris to comment though as I use them as a conduit for >> judging this stuff. > > Robert already confirmed this, but I'd like to point out that Noah's analysis > is apt. > > -- > > As for the suggestions for more transparency regarding what new features > are being worked on and when do they land in which version I agree that we > can do better and I'll take on doing some of the legwork here. > > I also like the proposed features, but I don't think committing to ship > pony-features without seeing any code is a good idea — just to paint an > extreme, so far nobody suggested that. > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > What is it supposed to mean ? A roadmap is a "a detailed plan to guide progress toward a goal " . Why couldn't we define goals ?
- benoît
