Nevertheless there is something to be said for groups who do adjourn when they’ve actually finished something. Taking a break is an important part of the typical community dynamics.
On Feb 10, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, 10 February 2014, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >>> So, I could ask, what's special about 72 hours? >> >> It was to prevent things from sneaking out during a weekend > > > So the release vote is scheduled for mid-week so that holiday weekends > won't come into play... Ok you'll have St Patrick's day falling on the > release day every 7 years or so... Same for the 4th of July and other > national holidays but if that affects the vast bulk of the PMC then the PMC > has a diversity problem ;-) > > >> by a secret cabal when people are otherwise engaged... > > > I also am assuming that the test suite for a release vote is either good or > slow... If good it will catch problems... If slow then the RC will have > been cut several hours before the vote is called... Further extending the > time for people to register a "fall back to 72h" vote because you can see > the "dodgy" commit of the cabal going in 6h before the release vote so that > the test suite can start on the RC > > I don't think you can do fast cadence without tooling support or you will > burn out the PMC and community... So to my mind tooling is a necessary > requirement... These are not a set of isolated independent things... They > are a combination of changes that conspire to find a second local minimum > to the problem set, just a local min that has releases every week > > ;-) > > >> Plus, >> again, based on the old adage that people who are involved >> are doing so *as volunteers*, and, as volunteers, there avail >> cycles would ebb and flow, 72 hours was/is a nice compromise >> to allow for semi-quick decisions but still enough time >> so that people didn't consider all this effort as work, >> instead of fun. >> > > It can be fun getting your changes released every week and getting feedback > from users... > > > -- > Sent from my phone
