Re: major version release schedule

2011-12-24 Thread Drew Kutcharian
I think there are couple of different ideas here at play 1) Time to release 2) Quality of the release IMO, the issue that effects most people is the quality of the release. So when someone says that we should slow down the release cycles, I think what they mean is that we should spend more tim

Re: major version release schedule

2011-12-20 Thread Peter Schuller
> Until recently we were working hard to reach a set of goals that > culminated in a 1.0 release.  I'm not sure we've had a formal > discussion on it, but just talking to people, there seems to be > consensus around the idea that we're now shifting our goals and > priorities around some (usability,

Re: major version release schedule

2011-12-20 Thread Eric Evans
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Nobody's forcing you to upgrade.  If you want twice as much time > between upgrading, just wait for 1.2.  In the meantime, people who > need the features in 1.1 also get those early (no, running trunk in > production isn't a serious option).

Re: major version release schedule

2011-12-20 Thread Radim Kolar
Nobody's forcing you to upgrade. If you want twice as much time between upgrading, just wait for 1.2. Currently 1.0 branch is still less stable then 0.8, i still get OOM on some nodes. Adding 1.1 feature set on top will make it less stable. It's also worth noting that waiting for 2x as many f

Re: major version release schedule

2011-12-20 Thread Peter Schuller
Here is another thing to consider: There is considerable cost involved in running/developing on old branches as the divergence between the version you're running and trunk increases. For those actively doing development, such divergence actually causes extra work and slows down development. A mor

Re: major version release schedule

2011-12-20 Thread Tatu Saloranta
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Nobody's forcing you to upgrade.  If you want twice as much time > between upgrading, just wait for 1.2.  In the meantime, people who > need the features in 1.1 also get those early (no, running trunk in > production isn't a serious option).

Re: major version release schedule

2011-12-20 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Nobody's forcing you to upgrade. If you want twice as much time between upgrading, just wait for 1.2. In the meantime, people who need the features in 1.1 also get those early (no, running trunk in production isn't a serious option). I don't see any real benefit for you in forcing your preferenc