1.6 plans

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> I'm a bit concerned that we are running into the "let's delay to get the
> last XX in" which has sort of crept into the 1.6 release. I agree with
> your reasoning, as long as it is small things that are needed.
>
> But mostly, I would *really* like to get back to timely releases. 1.6
> has just taken forever. I think if we had been doing monthly releases,
> we would have already done 1.7 by now.
>
> bzr 1.3   2008-03-20
> bzr 1.3.1 2008-04-09
> bzr 1.4   2008-04-28
> bzr 1.5   2008-05-16
> bzr 1.6b1 2008-06-02
> bzr 1.6b2 2008-06-10
> bzr 1.6b3 2008-07-17 ??? More than a month since b2
>
> The desire to get things into a release was *why* we switched to
> time-based releases. There is much less pressure if you know it will
> make it a month later if it doesn't happen now.

I agree with that; this is just more evidence for it.  After all we
can always do a point release to add the new feature if it comes in
just after a regular cycle.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>