<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Agreed. It causes two problems:<br><br></div>1) 9 month delays in getting code into a release<br></div>2) Some projects consider something to be breakable, from a back compatibility point of view, until it has made a formal release, which means anybody cutting releases from anything other than final/stable is facing the possibility of tenant facing API breakage. The attitude to this seems to differ between projects and indeed PTLs within the same project, but is quite worrying for distributors who want to release something more cutting edge than final/stable.<br><br></div>Is there any evidence that our long freeze significantly increases stability or indeed testing? Or do people just start working on their features for the next release?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 February 2015 at 22:45, Dan Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dms@danplanet.com" target="_blank">dms@danplanet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> Seriously, what is the point of 6-month releases again? We are a<br>
> free-form open source set of projects, with a lot of intelligent<br>
> engineers. Why are we stuck using an outdated release model?<br>
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</span>I've been wondering this myself for quite a while now. I'm really<br>
interested to hear what things would look like in a no-release model.<br>
I'm sure it would be initially met with a lot of resistance, but I think<br>
that in the end, it makes more sense to move to that sort of model and<br>
let vendors/deployers more flexibly decide when to roll out new stuff<br>
based on what has changed and what they value.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--Dan<br>
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