[ros-dev] Discussion: Release policy changes

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Την Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:13:24 +0200,ο(η) Ged Murphy <gedmurphy at gmail.com>  
έγραψε:

> On 12/9/06, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at studiocerebral.com> wrote:
>>
>>                 Hello,
>> I'd like to hear opinions regarding the change in release policy.
>>
>> The proposition:
>> Release happens on a strict time basis, like once per month. That
>> means, at the end of the month we look for the best revision inside
>> this month (probably which is closer to the end of the month), branch
>> from it, apply all fixes (if any), and release.
>>
>> Disadvantage: a few coming releases' quality will be overall lower,
>> there might be things like 0.3.25 (if release frequency is set too
>> high, and this is not a disadvantage actually).
>>
>> Advantages: in the long run quality goes up, more developers due to
>> higher release rate, more publicity, people will finally realize it's
>> an alpha product, more bugs reported, no signs of a dead project (I
>> doubt there are healthy projects doing 1 release per year :)).
>>
>> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>

This is exactly what is needed to get more developers interested in the  
project, plus, increased publicity equals more testing which can only be a  
good thing.

- Stephen A