<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.6.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 19:03 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Feb 28, 2013, at 05:01 PM, Ted Gould wrote: >I hope that we will. My biggest worry with the rolling release >methodology is that there is no deadlines for people to work towards >except the LTS deadlines. This will then encourage more polishing and >refining, with a rush to an even bigger deadline. We could all say "you >should be more disciplined than that," which is a truism, but one that >seems to ignore human nature. So I hope that there will be deadlines >for the monthly releases that people can target, and use for their own >milestones. +1 and I think the 3 month vUDSes will provide a nice cadence for that. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> The problem there being that UDS is only signing up for more work, not a point where the work has to be delivered :-) Ubuntu has had, in the past, an issue where the run up for UDS involves making sure we mark everything as POSTPONED. Ted </BODY> </HTML>