On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscriv...@gnu.org> wrote: > > we definitely need a better model than "let's release when we think it > is ok" :-) > > Should we move to a release every 3/6 months? > > I don't think that doing it more often would make any sense, given the > activity that usually wget has.
here's my vote for a release every 4 or 6 months, as necessary. that would give 2 or 3 releases a year. doesn't GNOME (& maybe other projects) release on a dependable 6 month schedule, matched by some distributions' (Fedora, Ubuntu?) release cadence? maybe you could synch up with that. I don't know how much effort it is to spin up a release...if you're only releasing once a year & you miss a distro's release window then it's that much longer til people actually get to use it. it seems like I'm seeing more contributions than usual. even if they're just documentation or translation patches, you want to get these to users quicker. it honors the submitters time/effort, packagers, users, bug reporters, etc. I'm a big fan of release early, release often. :) -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads
