Re: getting on a longer release cycled

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

David Trowbridge wrote:
> What in particular isn't possible with the 6-month cycle?

Nothing's impossible, but a longer cycle every so often would encourage 
larger and better thought-out changes. I always get the feeling that 
GNOME contributors hold back on a lot of excellent ideas because they 
feel it will take longer to implement properly and test than the time 
they have before the next release.

In a 12-month cycle, 9 months could be dedicated to development, 3 
months to documentation and testing. What an amazing amount of time that 
would be to get things right.

--Pat