[Rosegarden-devel] releasing

[D. M. M. <mic...@ro...>]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:00 pm, Chris Cannam wrote:

> And let's face it, 1.5 is an attractive number.  I like it better than 1.6.
>
> Anyone else have an opinion on this, er, hugely important subject?

I think 1.6 is a more attractive number.  They're really quite similar, but 
the 6 has smoother lines, and is less pointy.  Kind of like a good woman, or 
maybe suggestive of the bubbles on top of a mug of good lager.

I think my main vote here is that Heikki is right about our need to release 
early, release often, and not feel like we have to add some prescribed amount 
of fixes or new features in order to justify doing another release.  Our last 
release wasn't beta tested worth a damn anyway, and neither was the one 
before that.  There probably isn't much point trying to be professional about 
it, because we don't have the resources to get that kind of testing done.

I don't think we have enough resources to maintain some kind of two tiered 
release schedule either, and should probably just aim to try to come up with 
some logical number to affix to today's SVN whenever it seems there's 
something important enough to bother releasing.  In this case, our 
reorganized code tree and new build system, everything else aside.

Though we should delay long enough to at least attempt to address the 
aforementioned problems that shipped with 1.4.0.  I might get time to look 
into that tonight.

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre 

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