José Matos wrote:
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 21:44:37 Georg Baum wrote:
Then I _really_ dislike some recent changes in LyX development. I don't
think I need to reiterate all of them, one example can be seen in my other
mail of today.
Are you implying that we have a development model? ;-)
FWIW this is a direct reference to a Ghandi quote:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mohandas_Gandhi
Q: "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
A: "I think it would be a good idea!"
On a more serious note there is an article in LWN today about the release
models:
I fully agree with Linus and I like especially this quote:
Regressions _increase_ with longer release cycles. They don't get
fewer.. This simply *does*not*work*. You might want it to work, but
it's against human psychology. People get bored, and start wasting
their time discussing esoteric scheduler issues which weren't
regressions at all.
I know Georg (and maybe Michael) disagree with me but I really think the
only sane solution considering our obvious lack of time is to release
1.5.0 ASAP even if there's some regression to 1.3 or 1.4. Two points to
consider:
1) Three or four years of 1.4 did not solve all the regressions
2) 1.5 already solved a number of important regression of 1.4 WRT 1.3
I don't think we will loose our face by releasing 1.5 "as is".
Abdel.
