David W. Fenton wrote:
I honestly don't think MakeMusic is big enough to run their
development projects in that manner. It basically means running
multiple codebases at the same time, and forking them before you've
finished implementing the features in a previous version.
Well, I didn't think of it in terms of multiple codebases, so much as
the development process being more involved,. and taking longer than
most on the list seem to think. I suspect the 2006 codebase was
substantially closed sometime late last summer or last autumn, and that
some people began working at that point on the 2007 codebase. My hunch
is that someone at Makemusic! already knows the 2007 update feature list
with 85 percent confidence.
I further suspect that if someone submitted a brand new idea that did
not yet appear in any form on MakeMusic!'s "to do" list, and they felt
it was so compelling that it had to be included, that it might well be
Fin 2k8 or even 2k9 before it made it to light.
ns
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