Re: [Devil-linux-develop] 0.6 and future releases

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Hello Heiko and all!
> 
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
>> I was thinking about releasing 0.6 soon and change the release policy.
>>
>> At the moment we collect a lot of changes and then release a new 
>> version after a very long time.
>> We could go ahead and release a new version i.e. every 1-3 month.
>> What do you guys think about it?
> 
> 
> I think that you are somehow in the same position as Linus Torvalds.
> The kernel development is also too long because of the featurism,...

Or you could call it evolution.

> But I think good things do take a while and throwing out releases too
> often makes it moving a little too fast. When you'll be releasing 0.6
> a lot of people have to learn how to use the new features, which will
> take it's time. And a release also will take more time from us to do
> the mailinglist support.

That's true. We would need to count more on the people on the mailinglist.

> For me it looks as if we are getting too broad as from where we started.
> Devil-Linux nowadays does lot's more than just simple firewalls. I
> know this is cool, but can we manage it in the future? Basically I
> want to put up the question where are we heading too?

I understand your concerns.

I have some ideas about automating more things and due to that freeing 
up more time for us:
- pre-defined configuration profiles:
   make config router
   make config all
- dedicated compile host which does nothing else then compiling all the 
    different profiles and sending emails when there's a problem.
- automatic download of newer release of the used sources

> So much from my side. Now I'd like all others to choin in.

Yeah, speak up guys ! ;-)

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Regards
   Heiko

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