Re: 3.0 branding - release plans - etc

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006, Robert Collins wrote:
> So, chatting with Adrian today, and some friends, I have some thoughts
> about what precisely 3.0 should be.
>
> I think 3.0 STABLE1 when release should be:
> * more functional than 2.6 STABLEX - there should be no regressions in
> functionality.
> * within 10-15% of the speed of 2.6 STABLEX.

Agreed.

> So heres a proposal: end of october, presuming all bugs are contained,
> we release 3.0 FC-1 - which stands for 'Feature Complete'. From now to
> then is just bugfixen etc.
>
> After october, every month or two - lets set a predictable window - we
> do FC-2, etc.

I like this.

> We do *whatever it takes* architecturally and code wise to fix the
> release blocking bugs, and to get 3.0's speed sufficiently fast that we
> are all happy to call FC-??? STABLE-1.
>
> That means that large changes which are aimed at performance will be
> considered ok during the FC series.

I agree with this on principle. We should agree up-front what should be
done before we commit large scale changes. We need to concentrate on the
bare minimum required to meet our goals.

Adrian
Received on Sun Sep 10 2006 - 05:56:28 MDT