Time based releases for open source projects (a google video)

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Jun 21 21:55:09 UTC 2007


On Thursday 21 June 2007 16:07:14 Christian MICHON wrote:
> On 6/21/07, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > Here's a video of an ex-debian maintainer (Martin Michlmayr, never heard
> > of him) giving Google a talk about the advantages of time based release
> > management.
> > (...)
> > Yes, I think uClibc should do this, in case it wasn't clear.
>
> isn't this dedicated to *large* developments in particular?

Large development projects benefit more, but busybox after the 1.0 release was 
certainly large enough to benefit from this, and I think uClibc is too.

> > Your designated release pesterer,  (how goes the merge of nptl into the
> > main tree, by the way?)
>
> yes, but you pester with cakes :)

I pestered _Erik_ with cakes.

Mike hasn't put his mailing address online that I've been able to find yet. :)

Rob
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