Re: [Audacity-devel] [Audacity-translation] next beta release

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Michael Chinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Vaughan
> Johnson<va...@au...> wrote:
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>> Gale Andrews wrote:
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>>>> August 25 doesn't leave much time if we're targeting mid-September
>>>> for final release.
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>>> Agreed, but dare I say end September/early October would be more
>>> realistic given summer holidays and the other things like finishing the
>>> Manual?
>>>
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>> I thought we'd already decided this. Given the state of things, I'm
>> perfectly happy to move it to October 1, or even October 15, but let's
>> set a date. Anybody else?
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> Earlier deadlines can make more work come through.  With some joking
> and some seriousness, ideally we'd say August 25 and push the deadline
> back on the 20th or so.  The downsides with this method are of course
> that you can't post the release date, and everyone is more stressed
> out.
>   
Historically, we've done a lot better when we had specific set 
deadlines, and I think only once in chose cases did we have to postpone.

- Vaughan

> I don't have much of a sense of how timelines work for a stable
> release, but if its as big as I imagine, October 1st seems reasonable,
> but I would prefer the 15th.  I intend to help out with this release
> if there's something I can do.  I'm moving again within germany sept.
> 25, which makes the Oct.1 date a little rough.
>
> Michael
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