[darcs-users] growing the darcs team

[Eric Y. Kow]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:13:49 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
...
> patches from unstable to stable) for a long time.  More recently
> things have gotten problematic mostly because of lack of manpower
> (which you have experienced and are trying to address, so no problem
> for Darcs now), but also because of excessive divergence of the stable
> and unstable branches.  Watch out for that divergence.

thanks
 
> I don't much like the Bazaar model.  They're actually doing feature
> releases on that schedule, and I think stuff gets lost and the
> discussion on their lists too hectic.  In the Python model, feature
> releases are (planned) to take place about once a year from now on,
> with a 6 month feature development phase followed by a ~ six month
> phase with one release per month (3 betas, followed by 2 or 3 release
> candidates).  Perhaps something like the Python model would be
> appropriate to Darcs?

Perhaps.  Indeed, one month feature releases look a bit too ambitious,
but putting release candidates on a monthly cycle seems sensible.

We should have another look at this question after the October sprint,
and may have to keep experimenting thereafter, all the while adherering
to the principle of regular, predictable releases with monotonic
increases in quality :-)

Cheers,

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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