[Shotwell] Shorter cycles between releases

[Adam Dingle]

Thomas,

thanks for your message.  We also like regular release cycles.  In the early days of Shotwell's development we made a release every 3 months, but we now release every 6 months, just like GNOME and like the major distros (such as Fedora and Ubuntu).  As you can see in the Development section on the Shotwell wiki (http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki), Shotwell 0.13 is not far off: our feature freeze is less than a week away, and we're planning to release in mid-September, in time to be included in the fall releases of major distros.

It's true that we have lots of issues open marked for 0.13.  After our feature freeze we'll spend several weeks fixing bugs, though we probably won't be able to fix all these issues and so many will drop to 0.14.

Yes, our version numbers are modest.  :)  We may bump our version number up to 1.0 at some point, but I still feel like we're missing too many basic features to want to do that quite yet.  I think that 3.0 is still a ways off.  :)  cheers -

adam

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Thomas Novin <thomas at xyz.pp.se> wrote:
Hi 

It's becoming more an more popular to have shorter cycles between 
releases, which from a users standpoint, is good (IMO). Examples of 
this are Chrome, Firefox, MythTV, Ubuntu. 

Shotwell 0.12 was announced 12-03-27. Since then a couple of minor releases. 

Shotwell 0.13 seems to be far away still, according to the roadmap 
it's about 44% done with 68 issues closed and 85 still open. 

There is for example one feature added long ago in 0.13 but I can 
still not use it because I'm on 0.12.3. Why not make these new 
features and fixes available sooner? 

Rgds//Thomas 

Ps. While on the subject of versions, what's up with 0.x? If I were to 
choose between two softwares and one is 0.12.3 and the other 3.0 I 
would assume that the 3.0-software is quite mature while the 0.12 is 
just a early alpha release. 
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