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RE: setup goals
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "John Marshall" <johnm at falch dot net>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 21:19:55 +1000
- Subject: RE: setup goals
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Marshall [mailto:johnm@falch.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:09 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup goals
>
>
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:14:35AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > I thought I'd make the setup design and coding and make
> goals clear in
> > one place - I don't think it's been done recently.
> [...]
> > Second to last, patches to 'release' branches, such as
> setup-200205,
> > will only ever be for critical bug fixes, not for UI
> enhancements and
> > the like.
>
> To understand this rule, it would be good to know how often
> HEAD becomes the production release version. Obviously the
> answer is "when it's ready", but can you give an idea of
> intention? How much work tends to be bitten off at once? A
> couple of months worth, perhaps?
Ideally, around once a month. Pragmatically it seems to be ~3-4 months.
Rob