> I am no release expert, but I was at couple devops events lately and the > continuous delivery model makes sense to me. We should aim to be able to > release "every day". Automate everything up to the actual vote. The manual > vote should actually be the lengthiest process in the release. With that > concept, aiming at a release every week would be the optimal (I know this is > silly !!) > A search on Release early, release often leads to > http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html , > nice quick read.
I agree - Continuous Delivery is an awesome read btw. I'd love to be in that state, and folks like Prasanna are actively working on getting us there. > > In general I think we should release first and fix later, rather than fix and > release. > > Have we cut 4.0.1 yet ? Nope, but we should start talking about it soon. There are a number of bugs that seem ideal candidates, some of which have been fixed already. > > I will go back to my guinness now :) > > -Sebastien >