Re: [Emutos-devel] New release?

[Roger B. <an...@xp...>]

On 1 Nov 2024 at 2:11, ragnar76 via Emutos-devel wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Am 31.10.24 um 19:54 schrieb Roger Burrows via Emutos-devel:
> > As others have pointed out, you can see that commits are still being
> > made, so that would be a clue that the project isn't dead :-).
> I'm a system administrator for a company that writes software for banks
> and kindergartens and I see left and right how stupid the users are (no
> offence intended). So I can't imagine that inexperienced users look for
> commits or dev snapshots but rather go to the website, click on the
> download link and then wonder why it says `EmuTOS 1.3´ from March this
> year (as of today).

Perhaps you're correct, but when I see that the latest release of a niche 
open-source project is only about 6 months old, my impression is that it is 
being actively developed.

 So if it says somewhere on the website, on Github,
> Sourceforge or wherever that the release cycle will be changed then I
> think that should be enough
> 

Well, there's no official change since there has never been an official 
commitment as to frequency of releases.  FYI, here are the release dates of the 
last 10 releases:

0.9.7	2016-11
0.9.8	2017-04
0.9.9	2017-12
0.9.10	2018-12
0.9.11	2019-06
0.9.12	2019-10
1.0		2020-09
1.1		2021-07
1.2		2022-08
1.3		2024-03

As you can see, the time between releases has varied from 4 months to 19 
months; the average is about 10 months.

Personally, I would be reluctant to add any official statement since that would 
surely lead to the very problem you're concerned about: we say that we release 
approximately once a year, it's 13 months since a release, so the project must 
be dead.  However, Christian is the project manager so it's his call.

Roger