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Moin,
On Sunday 20 March 2005 14:49, Brion Vibber wrote:
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.
Sorry if I sounded "pushy" - didn't actually want to complain about a slow releases cycle - /me wanted merely a sort of schedule when 1.4 is expected (e.g. next day, next week or next year :)
If one knows the next stable release is 6 months away, one can update now and enjoy the features, if it is due next week, we don't need to bother to upgrade to RC1 because when the upgrade is done, 1.4final is already out :o)
I know it is hard to release stuff, because it is never as ready as one wants it :o)
Thanx again,
Best wishes,
Tels
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