0.15 release date changes

[Erik Bågfors]

On 2/7/07, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Erik Bågfors wrote:
> ...
>
> >> Probably in the future it make sense to use 2-3 months between releases.
> >>
> >
> > Release early, release often. I really believe that while bzr is being
> > developed this much, it's good to release often.  In each release
> > there has been performance enhancements, as well as other
> > enhancements.  Since lots of people compare bzr to hg in performance,
> > it's really good to get updates out as fast as possible to show that
> > things are happening in this regards.
> >
> > I also think that having a "this is the next thing we do"-list for
> > people to look at would be good.
> >
> > /Erik - still alive...
>
> There actually is a bit more overhead to a release than most people
> realize. Especially since we want to report what the performance
> improvements are, etc. So we need to spend a few days quantifying it,
> and building up the nice performance graphs, etc.
>
> If you look, you'll see that I didn't create Performance/ pages since
> 0.12. Part of that is because Wouter has been doing the releases. But
> the other part is because it takes me a couple days to produce (between
> setting up the tests, running them overnight to ensure consistency, and
> then analyzing the results and turning them into a nice looking summary.)
>
> There are other mental overheads of having a freeze week, etc.
>
> It ends up that 4-weeks is probably a little too fast. We've also come
> close to getting real regressions because of the last-week's "let's get
> this merged before we freeze".
>
> So I might actually recommend extending the freeze cycle to be 2-weeks.
> 1 with frozen features, and 1 with only regression fixes (I guess that
> was supposed to be the rc week, but I'm not sure if that is really
> working as expected).
>
> I also think it might be good to switch to a 6-week release cycle.


Ohh.. four weeks might be to short.. But three months for example,
would feel to long I think.  6 (perhaps 8) weeks is still good I
think.

/Erik