On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Michael Stone <mich...@laptop.org> wrote: > Greg, > > I don't mean to be nasty, but I do feel the need to be blunt: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:28:36PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> We are definitely behind where I would like to be at this stage. > > How far behind?
I work in an environment where products are always shipped on time. We are given a deadline to finish the project, which is usually a few months before the product actually ships. We have to finish the project by this deadline, and we believe it. Privately, the management team knows the real date the product must be finished by in order to be manufactured in time to coincide with marketing pushes, holidays, etc. As we reach and pass our first deadline, we are given new drop dead deadlines and we believe them. Absolute honesty in scheduling is not necessarily a good thing. Another way to put it is, you don't win a war without losing any battles. Adding big, scary features to 9.1.0 without stop-shipment level reason just because you know you are going to miss it anyway seems like a bad idea. Regarding filesystem choice, I would lean towards trying to enable swap on JFFS2, or eliminating the need for swap by choosing a lighter setup or enforcing RAM usage restrictions on program startup and adding RAM exhaustion warnings to the UI. Best, -Wade _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel