Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:

> Furthermore, I'm not saying that we should stick with this regime
> forever - see it as a 'therapy' against:
> - slipping release dates and thereby uncertainty with outsiders what is
> happening with Squeak;
> - a rusty release process - with a strict quarterly schedule, you get
> into a rythm and the whole process can be smoothed out quickly;
> - to a lesser extent, protection against 'too big' releases that have
> the associated risk of breakage.=20
> As I said, my experience is that it helps tremendously; my experience is
> usually with weekly or fortnightly release cycles, but that's clearly to
> short for Squeak.

What about having end of March for the release date for 3.5 (only on
month
release cycle - 10 days alpha - 10 days beta 10 days gamma) and then
switch to your proposition of quaterly releases?

End of June, end of September, end of December?

-- Hannes