Proposal for the development cycle

[Mildred Ki'Lya]

On 11/13/2009 05:09 PM, Farzad Sehat wrote:
>
>
> I absolutely agree with this point of view, our community is not big
> enough and moreover
> there is a lot of work to be done in the documentation. 2 release per
> year is too much and
> we have to favour quality.
> As Xavier said we have to freeze the stable 2 or 3 month before
> release in order to have a high
> quality release.
> The key feature is to make regular and complete report to benoit about
> the feature each member is developping.
> This way benoit can merge them more easely and more efficiently to the
> master branch and moreover he can merge
> to the stable branch more often. Indeed a good communication about all
> developping features let Ben to work
> better and to have fewer bug when freezing the stable.

Ok, perhaps big releases is not such a good idea, i'm willing to admit that.

But I think we should, at least internally, have more than one release a
year. Those wouldn't be much publicized, and will be only for Lisaac
enthusiasts. I don't think we can yet produce high quality releases (the
language itself doesn't yet meet my criteria of quality). But I think we
should be more dynamic. Without doing much, we can create a momentum
that could carry us much further.

It's also important for us psychologically to see things moving. If we
can say that 3 month before, the compiler was missing this and that
feature but now, it's available. It helps us keep the faith in what we
do and keep moving.



Also, that's a little off topic here, but I think we should include in
the source directory a changelog file. Each new release will be added in
it, and each new feature as well. Features should make reference to git
commits so those who want to review them (Ben?) can see what exactly has
been done. Any other commit should be trivial enough.


Mildred

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