6 Apr
2008
6 Apr
'08
9:03 p.m.
Hi Squirrel,
On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Squirrel wrote:
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
If it were that simple! There's no silver bullet unfortunately. Adding
stuff that suddenly makes the application faster, better, etc with no
change to the application is very rare... :)
Or maybe I missed what you were saying?
Hi everyone,
I don't know if you're like me but I have the strong feeling we
should
be better at not introducing regressions. One of the goal of XE 1.3
and now again XE 1.4 was more stability and more automated tests.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
I'm not a developer but a user, nevertheless I'd like to give you my 2
cents:
I would prefer if you would do minor changes with only small or no
impact to
the user (simply copy the new files into this and this folder and
you get a
performance boost or higher security or whatsoever; or even an integrated
update-manager a la firefox) to the stable branch (maybe with
somebody who
is responsible for the stable one) and beside this branch a developing
branch with a longer release-cycle. The benefit would be, that you
have more
time to develop stuff (maybe bigger changes) and it does not affect
the
general user because he is supposed to use the stable branch. Right
now the
release-cycle is too fast for me as a user (sound strange but it's
true for
me) to keep up with Xwiki.
That's an interesting statement that requires more input:
1) Why do you need to upgrade?
2) Why is hard to upgrade?
Re the stable/branch/etc that's exactly what we do... :)
We have the milestones/RC that last for about 3-4 months so we only
release a new version every 3-4 months. We can hardly call this quick!
Moreover you should know that the longer a release the less stable it
is in general since there are more stuff in it. From a user point of
view the best is to get the shortest possible release cycle. This is
what ensures the best quality in general. The Hudson project for
example releases every day or every 2 days and that's the greatest
possible. I'd love that we be able to do that with XWiki and this is
my personal target.
Thanks for your feedback.
-Vincent