From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update, and stock-taking Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:50:41 +0000 Message-ID: <50F7D781.3040408@eu.citrix.com> References: <1358360103.4842.15.camel@iceland> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1358360103.4842.15.camel@iceland> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu Cc: Matthew Fioravante , Ian Campbell , Wei Liu , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , Jim Fehlig , Jan Beulich , Anthony Perard , Daniel De Graaf , Roger Pau Monne List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 16/01/13 18:15, Wei Liu wrote: > I think I will rate my project as Good. Will send another RFC seires > (hopefully two) by the end of this month. But this is my first time to > estimate a real world project though. Well, I think even for experienced people, software estimation is only slightly better than "wild guess". This is particularly true when developing new features, as by definition you don't know what's possible and what might go wrong. If you're implementing your 10th Farmville clone, I think it's probably more predictable. :-) Thanks, -George