On Monday 19 March 2007 15:36:48 Max Spevack wrote: > This is because we start out by saying we want to try to do the release > every 6 months. And that can guarantee that it happens in 7 or 8, because > the physical act of slipping the release causes some level of shame and > urgency. > > If we just said at the beginning 7 months, then I think we'd *still* end > up slipping, and it would really be 8 or 9 months. Right. We start with 6 months and think "What can we accomplish in the development time this gives us?" Then we make a list and set some goals. Come test release time we slip a little here/there for things that are in flux and could be broken. The big slips come when we decided a feature was a must have back in planning stage and it just isn't ready in time for the release. That's when we shift from a time based release to a feature based release. You're right though, if we said 7 or 8 months from the get go, we'd say "well, what can we accomplish in the time THIS gives us for development" and we'd play the game all over again. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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