2011/4/15 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org:
That's a fair point. I didn't mean to propose a 1:1 workflow, I meant to just make a point about release schedules.
OK. If your main point was to say that we should branch 1.18 in April and 1.19 in August, I'm cool with that. Releasing too infrequently is bad, as we saw with 1.17, but you make solid points to support the notion that releasing too frequently introduces problems of its own, and that we should find middle ground. Speaking in terms of release cycle length, I think that 4-6 months (2-3 releases/yr) is a bit long and 3-4 months (3-4 releases/yr) is better, but I'm sure we can work out a number. Your point that release cycle length should be consciously and carefully decided on is a very good one, and I'm sorry I hijacked it with my release latency argument.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)