Re: Instituting feature and infrastructure enhancement proposal window?

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

The important dates in the above would be (in parentheses are my
straw-mans):

So I would basically cut you target timeframes into half (except for the 
first -rc release - there's no point in making that less than a week). 
Three months is just going to make people who miss the release window 
antsy. It's what the kernel has in practice, and I would *not* advocate it 
as ideal - I actually aim for 2 months and we then invariably slip a bit..

So I'd suggest:
 - first -rc in 1 week
 - window closes in 3 weeks
 - next release in 6 weeks
 - rinse and repeat

Yea, I agree with Linus suggestion of cutting the time windows
down to closer to 2 months per release.  1.5.4 took a long time.
It doesn't really affect me as I usually run the bleeding edge
'next', but I think most of our users feel warm and fuzzy about
running a released version.  As a community we need to help Junio
get stable releases out more often, so users can benefit from the
improvements we've made.

-- 
Shawn.