Two major releases per year instead of three

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jul 27 10:28:17 UTC 2011


Adrian Buehlmann <adrian <at> cadifra.com> writes:
> 
> I think leaving away the July 1st release date could work fine. Lots of
> people are on holidays during the summer in Europe and quite a number of
> developers seem to disappear right after this date, which makes its
> first bugfix release date (Aug 1st) quite problematic in my view.
> 
> Just ask yourself: Are users really going to upgrade to the July 1st
> release right before or in the middle of the summer holidays? I don't
> think so. At least not in Europe.

It sounds like you're trolling. Not everybody goes in holidays in summer, and
even then, people won't leave for more than one month (they can't).

I as an European user have no problem upgrading in July, and I do upgrade when I
care about some new feature (such as generaldelta).

> I think moving the March 1st date by two months to May 1st wouldn't be
> that bad. So people would have time to recover from the end of year
> holiday season (and the end of year activities for those having to do
> accounting .

Perhaps you should stop making outstanding assumptions about how people live
their lives?

Regards

Antoine.





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