[Zope-dev] 2.6.1 Plan?

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 04:22  AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
>> It what world do you live, and can I move there?
>
> You miss the point ;-)
>
> The flurry to get features into a 'stable' release is what I was on 
> about.
> If you flurry, the release won't be stable.
>
> I like the pattern of having stable releases and CVS or nightly builds 
> for people who want the latest and greatest. That way everyone gets to 
> contribute easily and freely and yet we still get truly stable 
> versions.
>
> Maybe not to the extent of having seperate 'dev' and 'stable' streams 
> a la Linux, but that's a good feeling in essence.
>
> Still, the overarching thing is release early and often. The fewer 
> features in each release, the fewer problems of "I need this feature, 
> but that means I also have to accept this one that I don't trust"

But release often is a BITCH for software configuration management.  
Good for developers, bad for deployers.