Re: Release cycle length

Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> I agree with Peter's other comment, that the longer the development 
> cycle, the longer the beta / bug shakeout period, perhaps a shorter dev 
> cycle would yield a shorter beta period, but perhaps it would also 
> result in a less solid release.

Perhaps.  Perhaps not.  The fewer the changes, the less complexity you
have to manage.

But it would certainly result in a smaller set of feature changes per
release.  Some people might regard that as a good thing.

The advantage to doing more frequent releases is that new features end
up with more real-world testing within a given block of time, on
average, because a lot more people pick up the releases than the CVS
snapshots or even release candidates..


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Kevin Brown					      kevin@sysexperts.com