[Torcs-ng-devel] More thoughts on release plan

[Andrew S. <And...@la...>]

Just a couple of thoughts that have been nagging me all day...

The goal, as I understand it, of NG is to implement all the enhancements
we'd like
to see in TORCS but that, for whatever reason, are slow in coming.  In
getting them
done and released people will be able to use & test them, bugs will be found
and fixed,
and eventually when the features are added to TORCS itself they'll be mature
and stable.

Our release plan though is to wait until TORCS puts out a new version, and
then to put
out a new NG a few weeks later.  To me, this seems a bit odd.  Enhancements
will still
have to wait for TORCS's lengthy release cycle, so we'd be going long
periods of time
with new additions in SVN but not available to the public as a "release".

I know we're trying to keep things in sync with TORCS to some degree, but
isn't it 
counter productive doing it this way?  Bear in mind too that some inclusions
in NG,
such as Locus, the Supercars and Brondehach, will almost certainly never
appear
in TORCS - and this could also be true of many other changes we make.  Might
it be
better therefore to follow our own release schedule and treat NG as a real
fork, with
no reliance on the parent project?

Just my view on things, am happy to abide by the democratic consensus :)

cheers
Andrew