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Qt Developers Work Out Plans For Time-Based Releases
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I'm not too fond of time based releases too. Many projects that switched to time based releases have really dropped in stability and increased amount of bugs. The big gorilla in the room is Ubuntu which gets more and more known not-fixed issues in the release notes, but it's released on time cause that's more important then getting it to work right. I hope Qt will not fall down this path.
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Originally posted by MatthewPL View PostTime-based released are the most stupid thing to do for projects (except Linux but this is a little bit diffrent, in Linux there is just to much changes to make plan of release). You should release your product when you have something to show and it is working not when calendar is telling you.
Feature-based releases are totally unfair. A feature can be fully completed but an unfinished feature can postpone a release indefinitely.
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Originally posted by MatthewPL View PostTime-based released are the most stupid thing to do for projects (except Linux but this is a little bit diffrent, in Linux there is just to much changes to make plan of release). You should release your product when you have something to show and it is working not when calendar is telling you.
1. They help downstream plan. Especially for a central component like Qt, knowing when to expect a release will help downstream developers plan their own releases.
2. They makes sure releases actually happen. You are unlikely to get something like Firefox used to be where they once went a year and a half between major releases, not to mention something like MythTV or grub.
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I wonder if Nokia are hoping they'll continue to work for free after being laid off?
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Time-based released are the most stupid thing to do for projects (except Linux but this is a little bit diffrent, in Linux there is just to much changes to make plan of release). You should release your product when you have something to show and it is working not when calendar is telling you. And fix-releases (like 5.0.x) should be released when you have something to fix (I found big bug in Qt, why I need wait 2 month for next release?).
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Qt Developers Work Out Plans For Time-Based Releases
Phoronix: Qt Developers Work Out Plans For Time-Based Releases
Following the Qt 5.0 release, developers of this open-source tool-kit will aim to issue feature updates on a six-month cycle...
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