[Speed-dreams-devel] Our future release process

Hi, Simon, everyone.

 > In my mind the Open-Source development flow is really a continuous thing,
 > not like the commercial world where the public would be forced to wait for
 > a _long_ time and be required to hand over a 'fist full of dollars'.
 >
 > Since we work in the open, anyone is capable of building the 'bleeding
 > edge' SD from SVN, or even packaging it up and distributing it as an
 > engineering release.

I'd be glad to stop making any official release package : really glad,
you can't even imagine how much.

Anyway ... Simon, sure you and most of us can build from sources, sure ...
but did you simply look at the download stats and compared the figures
of the binary and source packages ?

Do you all vote for stopping targeting normal end-users and only keep
developers as our only target ? And let anyone decide which SVN revision
is to be released to the world ?

And about the rolling release concept : do you sincerely believe that
there will be any valuable SD release in the future with something consistent
in its whole if there's no more stabilization and converging time
range, forcing everyone to work as a collaborating team
in the dirty work of fixing many little bothering bugs ?

The rolling release method is great, but it implies releasing,
and so converging and stabilizing ... more often.
Say 1 release every 6 month, means about 4 months development,
and 2 months converging and stabilizing, with NO DEVELOPMENT,
only dirty and bothering work.

Are we _all_ ready for that ?

I'm open to everything, provided it's reasonably likely to work
given our overall level of self discipline and our randomness
of work-time for SD over the year.

Cheers,

Jean-Philippe.