[Development] On the effectiveness of time based releases

[Olivier Goffart]

On Wednesday 26 February 2014 08:17:35 Koehne Kai wrote:
> [1]: I know that Qt 4.7/4.8 were kind of special for various reasons, and
> that it wasn't all caused by the unpredictable schedule. But it definitely
> didn't help.

4.8 WAS very special.  
4.8 was never really planed. When 4.7 was released on the phones, it was 
decided that we would put all the features in 4.7.x since "downstream" was 
afraid of a 4.8 release. All development was concentrated on 4.7.4 which was 
really a feature realease.
Then when Nokia stopped caring about meego, all the focus went to Qt5.
So you can't really take 4.8 or 5.0 as examples because they are special.


> Maybe we do indeed take features in too lightly. And maybe we have to be
> more strict following up on new features to make sure that they're really
> polished & ready at release time. But for all of this, having a predictable
> schedule is IMO a necessary prerequisite.

Normally, according to the current model, that's how it should be currently.
If it has not,that's because people have broken the rules.  It's not a flaw of 
the model.
If anything need to be changed is to be more strict with the rules.

-- 
Olivier 

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