On Tue, July 26, 2011 00:45, Michael Jurewitz wrote: > > On the release timing front, I actually think something longer than > four weeks should be the default goal. Artificially limiting to > four weeks may make it difficult to get larger scale feature work > completed. I also think that more frequent releases won't actually > benefit the users and businesses who rely on Rails. Instead, it > will only make it more complex to keep in step with changes in the > frameworks while ensuring existing apps still run. > > Along those lines, 48 hours for regressions is entirely too short. > It doesn't do the project any good to aggressively declare GM on a > release only to have to spin fast subsequent updates because a major > issue was not identified fast enough. I wouldn't want to see any > less than a week for regression reports.
I agree an excessively aggressive release schedule would, in the end, likely prove detrimental to ROR. I also feel that 48 hours is inadequate to install, test and report on a new release candidate on anything other than a purely superficial level. On the issue of "lead dog" I leave that to the core team to settle among themselves. I deal with several projects that all take different approaches to that problem and most seem to work well enough that no one of them commends itself above all the rest. Having said that, should my opinion matter then my preference would be for a "team" release system wherein all the "bus" people reach consensus among themselves of when to release a candidate and when to do a general release and no one of them takes the "heat" for delays and regressions. I appreciate very much all of the work that everyone concerned, past and present, has put into this project. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
