[ros-dev] Discussion: Release policy changes

[Aleksey Bragin]

		Hello,
I'd like to hear opinions regarding the change in release policy.

The proposition:
Release happens on a strict time basis, like once per month. That  
means, at the end of the month we look for the best revision inside  
this month (probably which is closer to the end of the month), branch  
from it, apply all fixes (if any), and release.

Disadvantage: a few coming releases' quality will be overall lower,  
there might be things like 0.3.25 (if release frequency is set too  
high, and this is not a disadvantage actually).

Advantages: in the long run quality goes up, more developers due to  
higher release rate, more publicity, people will finally realize it's  
an alpha product, more bugs reported, no signs of a dead project (I  
doubt there are healthy projects doing 1 release per year :)).

Any thoughts are appreciated.


With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.