Re: Proposal: Mandatory periodic releases

[Adam Fedor]

On 2006-03-04 15:57:03 -0700 Helge Hess <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> More frequent because it will be easier to try out new features (and  
> have a 
> less moving target even for developers) and less frequent  because 
> the 
> GNUstep API is too instable for distribution inclusion  and to base 
> binary 
> software packages upon. (and ABI change in the  core library every 6 
> months 
> or so is FAR to much, 12 months might be  OK, 24 considered stable).


Well, I try to do something like this, only I aim for binary 
compatibility, rather than API stability. That's way too hard for me 
to track - something that all the developers would have to sign up to 
do, not just me. The last binary incompatible release was September, 
last year (7 months).

anyway, I try for a release every month or two, although lately it's 
been three months. Maybe I should just set up an alarm to ping myself 
every month so I don't get busy and forget. It's not hard to make a 
release, but it's not trivial either, particularly since I can't 
possibly test it on all the major systems I'd like to test it on.