Hi! Am 2003-07-23 11:25 -0400 schrieb Matt Zimmerman: > I'm not convinced that establishing release goals will and deadlines speed > the release process. For example, a prominent release goal for sarge will > be debian-installer, since we cannot release without it. Will telling the > d-i developers "you must be finished by <arbitrary date>" bring it to > completion faster?
According to my personal experiences in both SW developing and real-world projects: definively yes! If there are neither goals nor deadlines at all, people tend to add bells and whistles, without getting anything completely done (i. e. releasable). In addition, deadlines IMHO _may_ improve motivation (as long as they are not ridiculously short), but getting a new release ready should be an important goal to every Developer. Goals are very important to keep people motivated. That should not mean that missing the deadline by a few weeks is disastrous; other OSS and also commercial projects also suffer from this - "planning means replacing coincidences by mistakes". Besides, what's so bad with the current boot-floppies that they could not be used for another release? Most people will do a mere dist-upgrade anyway, and b-f are thoroughly tested. But this certainly is another issue... Just my $0.02, Martin -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Es gibt zwei Regeln für Erfolg im Leben: 1. Erzähle den Leuten nie alles, was Du weißt.
