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

Carmelo Amoroso carmelo73 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 16:14:55 UTC 2007


Rob Landley wrote:
> 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?)
hi,
I provided with Steve, some weeks ago, all the patch for the nptl port over SH4.
He should have had defined a strategy for the merge as he told me...
probably he is vry busy at this time, anyway I haven't pinged him any more.

Carmelo




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