On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
Hey all,
I think it's probably time to start planning the next release, or atleast decide when it's going to be.
The sooner the better :)
The GNOME folks rave about time based releases, and think they are the best way to do Open Source software. I think this mostly comes from giving everyone a timeline to get features into the repository.
I should think that overall gnome has more contributors than Inkscape. Using a time-based deadline or target has a tendency to quantify the goal too much. This can put undue pressure on everyone, as well as force a false sense of accomplishment. If we were herding kittens, then a stopwatch would probably be best.
But, Bryce has done a really good job of making Milestones also - and I think that if we set "Milestone 2" as when we're going to do the next release that would be reasonable too.
We're already halfway through the #2 notch, and I assume that this will continue to be the trend. We will keep overlapping until we have some extension into a +2,+3 milestone lead. This keeps the project moving forward, using core devs to complete current milestones, and new folks can jump on bugs, or documenting future milestone waymarkers.
But really those are just my thoughts and ideas:)
Thomas