Re: [jokosher-devel] Heading towards 1.0

[Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com>]

Jono Bacon wrote:
> I talked about this with some of you on IRC and the suggestion is that
> we want to aim to get a final release included in Edgy+1, and this
> deadline date should be around February. Now, we want to have a decent
> release candidate process for 1.0 to get rid of bugs, so the suggested
> approach is that we have 1.0RC for around the beginning of Feb, and
> this release will certainly go into edgy+1. We can then have a month
> or so of bugfixing before releasing 1.0 final. 

I would prefer not to call it 1.0RC, unless that's what it really is. It 
all depends on how much time there is between when the so called "RC" 
comes out and when the actual "1.0" comes out. See my next point below.

This way, Edgy+1 gets a
> release and we also get some good feedback and bugfixes.

Universe freeze (the freeze we care about) for Ubuntu is about one month 
before the actual release of Edgy+1. So if we are planning to get 
feedback from all the Jokosher users apt-getting it from Edgy+1, and 1.0 
is released about a month after the RC, we will be getting a lot of bug 
reports and feedback *after* we have already released Jokosher 1.0.

I would rather call the release after 0.2, Jokosher 0.9 or Jokosher 
1.0Beta, and then have more than one month between that and the actual 
1.0, to allow for edgy to be released, etc. We probably shouldn't have 
any real features added between those two releases, but to make up for 
the extra time we could ship will some new cool extensions or and some 
little features that would risk breaking anything.

Laszlo