setup goals

[Robert Collins]

> -----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