Re: bugs, bugs, bugs!

[Jack Bowling <jbinpg shaw ca>]

** Reply to message from Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> on Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:00:12 -0400

> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-June/msg00041.html


> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:30:10PM -0700, Jack Bowling wrote: 
> > OK, I don't want to be overly argumentative here, but if the releases
> > are now short-cycle, just when will there be enough time to sweep the
> > bugs away and get to the RFEs?
> 
> Keep in mind that the releases aren't necessarily any shorter-cycle
> than they've ever been, or shorter than GNOME or Mozilla for example.
> 
> The releases are time-based though, that means once the feature freeze
> hits, all the RFEs are off the list until the next cycle.
> 
> This post relating to GNOME is an explanation of how a time-based
> release works:
>  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-June/msg00041.html

Thanks for the link. Havoc. Although the gist of it may just be enough to send some readers scuttling off to Enterprise and leave WS behind.

jb

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