On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:03:18PM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> You may or may not work, but now I work for Six Apart, on Movable Type.
> Now, there is the company, but also the a community, that maintain a fork
> (called Open Melody) of the previous major version.
> 
> Sometimes that people submit a pull request, with useful patches. and that
> is good.
> but on the other side, in the company we have release cycles.
> (planning-implementing-testing-release)
> it means that when a patch comes, it probably won't enter to the upcoming
> release, and we can not even tell when it will added to the product until it
> actually marked in some release for inclusion.
> 
> so practically the submitter is getting a "thank for your patch. it will be
> integrated sometime in the future" massage, and I think that this is very
> discouraging for them.
> but I don't know how to fix that.
> 


I don't know why this should be a problem.  All the major projects have
release cycles.  They have an unstable beta available for testing and
patching, and the official "stable" release.

If your not releasing under a free software license, however, it doesn't
matter much.

Ruben


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