1.0 release?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon May 10 05:02:32 UTC 2010


So now that NPTL is in, it sounds like the next release should be either 1.0 
or 1.0-pre.  It is more or less feature complete, isn't it?

It also sounds like a stable ABI for uClibc pretty much isn't in the cards, 
because when you change the uClibc .config you change the ABI.  Also, there's 
nothing magical about the 1.0 release that'll stop people from wanting to 
switch to new kernel APIs and coming up with more efficient layouts for 
structures in response to that sort of thing...

I'd also like to remind people of the awesome video:

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503858974016723264

April 19, 2007 Release Management in Large Free Software Projects - Martin 
Michlmayr (Debian)

ABSTRACT: Time based releases are made according to a specific time interval, 
instead of making a release when a particular functionality or set of features 
have been implemented. This talk argues that time based release management 
acts as an effective coordination mechanism in large volunteer projects and 
shows examples from seven projects that have moved to time based releases: 
Debian, GCC, GNOME, Linux, OpenOffice, Plone, and X.org.

Just thought I'd mention that...
-- 
Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds


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