After receiving somewhat conflicting input (some pro quick releases, some against), I've decided roughly to follow the following strategy:
For the immediate future: 1. Observe the progress of our current development work over the next week or two. 2. As far as I can tell, all the code is stable *except* the new batch insert database code, which is not yet of production quality. 3. After a week, if it is production quality, then we will release an update to 2.0.x that contains the whole of the current development code. 4. If after a week, the database code is not production quality, then I will merge all the development code except the batch insert database code into 2.0.4 and release it in the near future (3 - 6 weeks). Longer term: While developing the 2.0.x code, we made some 12 releases to version 1.38.x. The first few, as with 2.0.x, were primarily bug fix releases, but a good part of the subsequent releases were new features, but those which I found to be stable and compatible. I would like to continue this sort of release procedure. It allows us to make a new incremental release every two to four months each time adding new features. Please keep in mind that each of the 2.0.x releases as was the case with 1.38.x will remain totally compatible. There will be no need as some feared to upgrade lots or clients unless you want new features that have been added to the clients. Normally new client features don't come along too often, but we will probably have one shortly for 2.0.x for Win32, because from what I understand the current client does not run on Vista (thanks Microsoft), so we will very likely release an update (hopefully sooner rather than later). Obviously the above means that the 2.0.x feature updates will be limited to those that are stable and cause no compatibility problems. Major features updates will continue to be spaced at approximately 12-18 month intervals. Basically this means maintaining the status quo. If someone has some problems with this, now is the time to speak up. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
