[Freeassociation-devel] libical release planning (was: Re: libical: TZID prefix)

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 17 August 2011 9:58:15 AM you wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 07:32 -0400, Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 August 2011 7:52:12 AM Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > With libical, both is the case right now: I am still testing it on Linux
> > > with EDS/SyncEvolution *and* the TZID problem is still open. See my
> > > other email on that.
> > > 
> > > So let's focus on that and release in about a week?
> > > 
> > 
> > At least lets' do some testing besides just Patrick and myself.
> > There have quite some changes.
> > 
> > It's one thing to release something we feel pretty confident about.
> > It's quite another to just throw code out there that people already
> > use and rely on as a stable library.
> > 
> > I strongly oppose any release at this time until there is more internal testing
> > on a variety of platforms.  Windows included.
> > 
> > Please test and report back here what you found.
> 
> But what if that testing isn't happening? Never release another update?
> 
> Part of the motivation for the "release early, release often" guideline
> is that users (which are more likely developers and distributors in the
> case of libical) are not going to do the testing unless a release is cut
> first. Classic chicken-and-egg problem.
> 
> If you can get people to do the testing before-hand, great, but if not,
> then doing the release and being prepared to follow up quickly with
> fixes for problems found after the release is one way out of the
> deadlock.
> 
I'm not budging on my position.
I did almost all the work since the last release so I'm deciding.

Art can take away my admin status if he likes.  But that's how I feel about it.