[Development] On the effectiveness of time based releases

[Thiago Macieira]

Em ter 25 fev 2014, às 18:26:19, Giuseppe D'Angelo escreveu:
> > Before merging a feature the maintainers consider if yes or not the
> > feature is ready for integration. If bad decisions are made, I don't
> > think the "time- based" releases have anything to do with that.
> 
> It has to some degree, because it leads to rushing features in before 
> the deadline; and then API reviews, blatant bug fixes, writing examples, 
> source cleanups, etc. happen in stable after the merge (and not, as I 
> said, before even merging into dev).

Those things still came from a bad decision: allowing the change in.

Yes, it came out of time pressure, but it's still a bad decision.
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