Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-apps-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#faqs>
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: setup goals
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 21:19:55 +1000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3
content-class: urn:content-classes:message
Message-ID: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C6012@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
X-MS-Has-Attach: 
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "John Marshall" <johnm AT falch DOT net>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g49BK6330962



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Marshall [mailto:johnm AT falch DOT net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:09 PM
> To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: setup goals
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:14:35AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > I thought I'd make the setup design and coding and make 
> goals clear in 
> > one place - I don't think it's been done recently.
> [...]
> > Second to last, patches to 'release' branches, such as 
> setup-200205, 
> > will only ever be for critical bug fixes, not for UI 
> enhancements and 
> > the like.
> 
> To understand this rule, it would be good to know how often 
> HEAD becomes the production release version.  Obviously the 
> answer is "when it's ready", but can you give an idea of 
> intention?  How much work tends to be bitten off at once?  A 
> couple of months worth, perhaps?

Ideally, around once a month. Pragmatically it seems to be ~3-4 months.

Rob