Proposal for Squeak 3.8 release schedule

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Oct 9 08:08:50 UTC 2004


I think that diego is right and I would like that we find a way to  
satisfy everybody.
If necessary it would be good that 3.8 builders, really help doing a  
3.9 fast release for diego.

Stef

On 7 oct. 04, at 18:52, Diego Gomez Deck wrote:

>>> I would like to know which changes in unstable update stream will be
>>> considered stable/unstable.
>>
>> The rule of thumb is to include fixes but not extensions.
>
> In this case I very much *disagree* with your proposal.
>
> Let me state my point of view:
>
> The community decided about an ultra-stable 3.8 release over ends of
> July:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-July/ 
> 080375.html
>
> Since then the plan about 3.8-ultra-stable was paused until yesterday
> you told us your proposal.
>
> Meanwhile the community moved in another directing in absence of  
> answers
> from you.  Talking for myself I changed my plans about Small-Land's
> release delaying it for weeks and I invested time and effort merging my
> changes in unstable stream to join 3.8.
>
> Note that more than 2 months had elapsed since the original idea of
> ultraConservative-shortRelease for 3.8. That means we spent more time
> waiting that the time we decided to invest on 3.8UltraStable (As it was
> 2 months).
>
>
> BTW, Did you notice all the changes in 3.8 unstable are very stable and
> all are configurable using preferences?.
>
>
> -- Diego
>
>
>




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