Xfce 4.2 scope [WAS Re: dev FAQ?]

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>Brian,
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>On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 04:02, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>the thing is, if the dev cycle was shorter (or if we were to do some 
>>semi-often preview releases), it wouldn't be such a big deal.  i could 
>>have a functioning "release grade" xfdesktop with desktop icons as, say, 
>>a 4.3 release a couple months after 4.2 is released - OR, even _before_ 
>>4.2 is released, but after 4.1 is frozen (yeah, that's really 
>>confusing).  if desktop icons have to wait until 4.4, that's going to be 
>>what, another year?
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>Yes, we were all for making shorter releases. But the fact is that HEAD
>is really not stable at all, and there are some major bugs.
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yeah, agreed.

>So ok to release more often, but release what? I'm not in favour of
>release too buggy code. If it's too buggy, it's safer to keep it in CVS
>as only the more adventurous will use it.
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sounds reasonable to me.

so, i'll say it, and then hide for a week until the flames subside...  
methinks i'm going to go into bugfix mode and save desktop icons for 4.4.

    -brian