Tels wrote:
With Perl v5.8.x there are now fixed release deadlines
and they are
strictly adhered to, which resulted in quite a bit of released versions -
currently 5.8.7 is at the door.
Remember we've been doing two to three major version releases a year,
which is not absurdly slow. Fashionably 'aggressive' projects like
Gnome, Fedora Core, etc are generally targetting similar 6-month release
intervals, which people sometimes complain are too fast. :)
mediawiki-stable: 2003-08-29
1.1.0: 2003-12-08
1.2.0: 2004-03-24
1.3.0: 2004-08-12
1.4.0: 2005-03-20 [approx]
That's IMHO much better than having v1.4
"nearly ready" since
2004-12-03 :)
Well, I wouldn't say it's been "nearly ready" since December 3. A *lot*
of important bug fixes got done over the next three months, fixes which
happened because we rolled it out into use in an environment where it
would get a lot of stress testing and where we could deploy our fixes
immediately at a point where we wouldn't dare declare it ready for the
public. :)
Many people don't keep up with releases well once they've set up their
sites, so I'm pretty leery about releasing a new 'stable' version too early.
However I had hoped to get a formal release out a bit earlier than this
(and would have done so last month, had I not run into security bugs I
wanted to do further testing and investigation on; that lead me to put
out a release candidate instead of a final release). I'll go ahead and
push out 1.4.0 tomorrow; I'm pretty happy with the current state.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)