Re: Shortening the Development Cycle... [maybe OffTopic, flame-bait?]

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
13 Sep 1999 09:37:39 +0200

josepha48@yahoo.com (Joe) writes:

>say by this time such and such is done. Rather than useing a
>date, why not use a version number? Lets say 2.3.20 (pick one) .
>If you stuff is not in by that version number it does not get in
>this round. Then from 2.3.20 the kernel can be working on for
>fixes rather than new features. This means that hopefully by the
>time it reaches 2.3.25(?) it is stable enought to be released as

This idea gave us 0.99.14a - 0.99.14<x>

Regards
Henning

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