[elephant-devel] Time-boxed releases

[Ian Eslick]

Hi Leslie,

I'd be open to a time-driven release process, but perhaps on a longer  
timeframe.  A proper Elephant release is actually quite a chore, given  
the 36 permutations of lisp + data store + OS that we support.

Also developer time is highly variable and the rate of change outside  
of one of the major overhauls we just went through isn't that high  
(bug fixes, small feature enhancements).  If we allowed 8 weeks for  
small fixes to accumulate, then split the branches into incremental  
release & development branch we could reliably have quarterly  
incremental releases.  We could move up the schedule to accommodate,  
for example, a major bug fix or feature addition.

Thoughts?

Ian

On May 26, 2008, at 6:02 AM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:

>
> This topic was addressed in a side-note by Robert.
>
> I think it's a very good idea to have, say, monthly releases.
>
> What do you think about it? We could start this with the
> release of 1.0.
>
>  Leslie
>
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