<div dir="ltr">I also agree that having fixed dates for stable releases is good and we should continue doing it.<div><br></div><div>Regarding faster access to newly implemented features, how about a separate "channel" called beta or dev that releases weekly (or at will)? New features are introduced in this channel and, after they've been qualified for a few weeks, move to the stable channel. This is like what OS distros such as CoreOS do (they actually have three channels: alpha, beta, stable; visit <a href="https://coreos.com/releases/">https://coreos.com/releases/</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>--Saied</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Tycho Andersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tycho.andersen@canonical.com" target="_blank">tycho.andersen@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:23:32PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:<br>
</span><span class="">> Hi,<br>
><br>
> We've been playing the time-driven releases model for the past<br>
> year and, at some sense, succeeded. However, it seems like the<br>
> strict dates that were chosen were not 100% comfortable for all<br>
> the parties.<br>
><br>
> Also there sometimes appeared the need to have some "quite new"<br>
> functionality early (or -- during the one week feature freeze<br>
> period) and waiting till the next release was also not nice.<br>
><br>
> So this e-mail is a call for comments -- shall we continue the<br>
> once-a-season releases as we do now, should we slightly fix it<br>
> (e.g. by formalizing the -stable branches) or should we change<br>
> it completely?<br>
<br>
</span>I like the fixed date release because it forces us to release stuff.<br>
My experience is that everyone wants to wait for "one more bug fix" if<br>
we don't have a timed release.<br>
<br>
One solution to the "wait for next release" problem is just to release<br>
more often, once every 1-2 months maybe instead of once every three<br>
months? Of course, it's easy for me to suggest this since I don't have<br>
to do any work maintaining releases :)<br>
<br>
Another option would be to adjust the dates slightly, say Feb 1, May<br>
1, August 1, Nov 1, which would perhaps align (or not align) with<br>
holidays slightly better.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Tycho<br>
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