Hi Chris, you've got a good point there.
My "theory" is that momentum gets less after a release, so maybe if the release period had been longer, those features would have made it into trunk/2.7 already. But again this is purely speculation. Best regards, Bart > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:22:29AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> just wondering how people are experiencing the fact that 2.7 was a >> time-based release instead of a functionality-based release. >> >> Personally I am more in favour of the functionality-based releasing, >> since >> now I still need to patch a lot of things in the 2.7 release with >> respect >> to GML, Filter, WFS etc. > > Bart, > > Given that none of these things are in trunk, I'm not sure how this > would be any different from a feature based release. Unless you're > saying that you could have waited another $time_period for 2.7 -- if you > were still using 2.6 today (since we can't cut a release today with the > features you want), how would the situation be different? > > As soon as the features that people care about are in trunk, I'm happy > to cut another release. Heck, I'm happy to do another release far more > often than we currently are, I think it has a lot of good things going > for it. But claiming that the reason that your code needs to be patched > is becaues of a time-base released simply seems incorrect to me until > your features are in trunk. > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
