Quicker releases have the benefit that it forces us to fix lingering regressions and release. Otherwise regressions and significant bugs pile up until release and we have to spend months fixing them.
On 25 February 2012 04:00, Adam <geekdun...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Faster release cycle is better" is what a bunch of idiots at Mozilla > Corporation said. > And now their browser has begun the process of becoming more > bloated, much slower, and contains more and more useless rubbish and > "features" with every release, while the competition (including > Internet Explorer) is excelling on simple and useful things, such as a > UI that doesn't randomly freeze solid every five minutes. > > I strongly oppose this "faster release cycle" unless it means simply > tagging a TRUNK build that "just works" as a release and releasing > without doing anything further, apart from maybe the occasional > bootscreen/login screen change to reflect the version number. > > If you want to try new features, use a trunk build. > > Quick release may actually *reduce* the interest in ReactOS when people > try the "stable" builds only to find that it is a lot buggier because > of the absurdly limiting deadlines, and so few final fixes could be > made. > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:31:52 +0000 > Andrew Faulds <ajf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Good! Let's proceed with 0.3.15... a faster release cycle is better, >> and will help interest in ROS as people will be able to see clearly >> that progress is being made (as opposed to appearing to be stagnant to >> those who do not look at trunk). >> Plus, I want a "stable" release to try some new features ;P >> >> On 24 February 2012 11:49, Amine Khaldi <amine.kha...@reactos.org> >> wrote: >> > February 2012 Meeting Minutes >> > >> > 2012-02-23 >> > 19:45 UTC >> > Fezile, #meeting >> > >> > Proceedings >> > =========== >> > * Meeting started at 19:45 UTC by Aleksey Bragin. >> > >> > * Point 1: Release status: 0.3.15 >> > --------------------------------- >> > * Aleksey Bragin proposed that we prepare trunk and release 0.3.15, >> > as it is now, before anything major happens. Several members then >> > wondered about the status of USB and the "mshtml bug". Jerome >> > Gardou explained a bit about how the mshtml bug is far from >> > completely being fixed, because if you look at testbot's results, >> > there are still some problems with ASSERTs hit and some bad >> > pagefaults happening when paging out. >> > * A lengthy discussion occurred, about how ready trunk is, whether >> > it's in a better state than 0.3.14, the state of the theme to be >> > bundled with ros, the plan for CLT, whether we should go >> > 0.4<something> or 0.3.15... This was settled through a voting: "Do >> > you agree to release 0.3.15 with current trunk features, before >> > CLT?". >> > * The total number of votes was 21, with 11 votes as Yes, 5 as No, >> > and 5 abstentions. As a result, we will be having a 0.3.15 release >> > with CLT being the deadline. >> > >> > * Point 2: New website status and migration plans >> > ------------------------------------------------- >> > * Amine Khaldi gave a quick summary on the state of the website >> > revamp: >> > - Quite some progress has been made in the theming department, >> > and it's visible from the playground. It's starting to look a lot >> > like the current one, which means it's almost done (only some >> > issues are left). >> > - Maciej Bialas has been investigating how to import users from >> > the RosCMS. We will most likely need to compromise: members will >> > have to reenter passwords when we migrate, but we'll see. >> > - Amine Khaldi then mentioned that we need help from web devs >> > familiar with Drupal. Alexander Rechitskiy mentioned that he has a >> > guy that wants to be part of the web team, and he passes his info >> > to Amine to establish the contact. >> > - He also mentioned that Maciej is very busy, so the progress >> > will slow down, and that the current short term plan is to continue >> > the theming work, provide a way to import users, import the rest of >> > data from wiki/bugzilla...etc and finally add the phpbb bridge. >> > * He then summarized the summary by saying: We needs skillful >> > drupal guys, we're almost there, and that's it. >> > >> > * Point 3: CMake migration and finally abandoning RBuild >> > -------------------------------------------------------- >> > * Amine Khaldi suggested that it's time to ditch rbuild, as he >> > suspects most of our members have migrated already. Agreement on >> > that, from ours members, was unprecedented as *everyone* were on >> > favor of this :) >> > * We agreed on doing the necessary commits/infrastructure changes >> > ASAP, ie "tonight" (relative to the meeting of course), but that >> > didn't happen just yet so it's just a matter of time. Amine Khaldi >> > wants to do the honors (the commit that will remove rbuild and its >> > related files). >> > * Amine Khaldi also mentioned that he's preparing a nice little >> > surprise for major build performance boost, on many levels, so stay >> > tuned guys ;) >> > * Jerome Gardou explained that he'll be handling the PCH support to >> > get it to a much better state than it is right now. >> > >> > * Point 4: Added per Amine Khaldi's request: GSoC preparations >> > -------------------------------------------------------------- >> > * Amine Khaldi explained that he created a Google Doc and invited >> > the interested members. He asked the members to collaborate and >> > shape up an excellent ideas list, projects that fit in GSoC at both >> > the time and complexity levels. >> > * Colin suggested building up on the last year in terms of >> > informative content (wiki pages from last year), covering questions >> > about how we deal with students, our application form... etc. >> > >> > * Meeting closed at 21:45 UTC by Aleksey Bragin. >> > * Minutes written by Amine Khaldi. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Ros-dev mailing list >> > Ros-dev@reactos.org >> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev -- Andrew Faulds (AJF) http://ajf.me/ _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
