Re: Instituting feature and infrastructure enhancement proposal window?

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > The important dates in the above would be (in parentheses are my
> > straw-mans):
> 
> So I would basically cut you target timeframes into half (except for the 
> first -rc release - there's no point in making that less than a week). 
> Three months is just going to make people who miss the release window 
> antsy. It's what the kernel has in practice, and I would *not* advocate it 
> as ideal - I actually aim for 2 months and we then invariably slip a bit..
> 
> So I'd suggest:
>  - first -rc in 1 week
>  - window closes in 3 weeks
>  - next release in 6 weeks
>  - rinse and repeat

Yea, I agree with Linus suggestion of cutting the time windows
down to closer to 2 months per release.  1.5.4 took a long time.
It doesn't really affect me as I usually run the bleeding edge
'next', but I think most of our users feel warm and fuzzy about
running a released version.  As a community we need to help Junio
get stable releases out more often, so users can benefit from the
improvements we've made.

-- 
Shawn.