[wp-hackers] 120-day release cycle

[Alex King]

The only problem I see here is how big new features and new features  
from external developers get integrated. As it is supposed to work  
now, they exist as patches in Trac. If they sit for (potentially) 2  
months, it is likely that the patch will no longer fit. This puts the  
onus on outside devs to maintain/submit new patches through the 2  
month "polish and fix" part of the cycle.

I can also see potential for features to be dropped from a release  
somewhat indefinitely because of timeline. Coordinating large new  
features is a good reason for creating branches, which can merged  
back even several releases later when they are ready for "polish and  
test".

I'm not saying this is a bad idea - everything has trade-offs. I just  
thought I'd bring these points up.

Cheers,
--Alex

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On Oct 1, 2006, at 11:48 PM:

> 2 months of crazy fun wild development where anything goes
> 1 month of polishing things a little bit, and performance
> Feature freeze.
> 1 month of testing, with a public beta release at the beginning