[Squeakfoundation]KCP & 3.6

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at netvision.net.il
Fri Jun 20 09:50:21 CEST 2003


I disagree with the current calls to delay the release. If we wait for
everyone to get whatever matters to them in, we might never make a
release again :-) I don't see anything wrong with stuff waiting for 3.7
- DecPools included.

I know a few of us feel "in the middle of" various projects, but I think
the release process has value too - it reminds us to clean the table
every so often. I think between the KCP deprecations and the network
rewrite, we've had enough change that it will do us good to focus on
stability before we keep moving ahead.

More generally - if we think about the process as a whole, not just the
particular point in time were in, the only right kinds of reasons to
delay the move to beta are "it doesn't meet our functionality goals". A
more specific example is "without this new function, all of this other
stuff we inserted makes no sense AND it is hard to remove that stuff".
Only right kind of reason to avoid moving from beta to gamma is "this
version doesn't meet our stability goals". Which I think should be "this
version should be stabler than the previous one".

So a one week delay of beta to insert parts of KCP that relate to what's
already in makes a little sense. Delaying by a month just to get more
stuff in now that the harvesting process is livelier, seems unjustified
to me - we can get that after the version fork.

Speaking of which - at which stage do we create the 3.7 update stream?
last time we did it on entry to beta, IIRC, yet some might say entry to
gamma is more reasonable. What do we think?

Daniel


Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I don't think we're anywhere near ready for beta right now; just for an
> example in my area there is the DeclarativePools stuff to decide on. 
> 
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