Thanks. Ive read that blog entry now and Robs reply.
It all sounds perfectly reasonable. There should come a point though where the
psychological value of declaring the product stable
exceeds the benefit of teasing out the final wrinkles. I often wish that Gmail
/ Google Mail would take that idea on board and break
out of the apparent perpetual beta phase.
There is obviously a balance to be struck when cutting over from one major
version to the next. Do it too often and stability
suffers; or is expensive to maintain. Do it too infrequently and new features
are denied to production users for too long. Id
suggest somewhere between 18 months and 2 years is a reasonable periodic cycle
to aim for between each major release.
Regards
Mike
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From: Francis Kam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 January 2007 21:34
To: Mike Green
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Shouldnt WiX be Production/Stable instead of Beta?
Rob actually wrote a post on his blog about this in December:
http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2006/12/19/Drive-to-a-WiX-v2-toolset-final-release.aspx
<http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2006/12/19/Drive-to-a-WiX-v2-toolset-final-release.aspx>
-Francis
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