Time based releases for open source projects (a google video)

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Jun 21 12:48:17 PDT 2007


Here's a video of an ex-debian maintainer (Martin Michlmayr, never heard of 
him) giving Google a talk about the advantages of time based release 
management.

ABSTRACT: Time based releases are made according to a specific time interval, 
instead of making release when particular functionality or set of features 
have been implemented.  This talk will argue that time based release 
management acts as an effective coordination mechanism in large volunteer 
projects and will show examples from seven projects that have moved to time 
based releases: Debian, GCC, GNOME, Linux, OpenOffice, Plone, and X.org.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503858974016723264

Yes, I think uClibc should do this, in case it wasn't clear.

Your designated release pesterer,  (how goes the merge of nptl into the main 
tree, by the way?)

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.


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