[Swift-devel] towards a 1.0 release

[Michael Wilde]

Some preliminary comments:

- a 1.0 focus on quality as you state below is good.

- features Im most eager to see in 1.0 relate to better site/tc config, 
error messages, and status monitoring/reporting.

- Im interested in provenance feature that are useful to users, and the 
challenge as a by-product, not an end goal.

These are all to be defined. If working on the challenge precludes 
these, I will ask that we drop out of that, again.

Mike


On 5/5/09 4:42 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> Mike has indicated that he would like a 1.0 release towards the end of 
> August.
> 
> I would like to determine:
> 
>   i) is there consensus on what a 1.0 release is? (I suspect not)
>   ii) is a 1.0 release achieveable by the above date (which I think 
>       influences i)
>   iii) if so, what should happen between now and then
> 
> My personal opinions on what should happen if we are to have 1.0 release 
> follow:
> 
> I think for an august-release 1.0, major work whch is not already 
> substantially in-progress should not be started. Concretely, I think that 
> means that Mihael continues to work on coasters and I continue my 
> provenance work, and nothing major happens between now and 1.0.
> 
> There should be an intermediate (0.95) release around the end of June. 
> There absolutely should not be a rush to cram buggy features into this 
> release at the last minute.
> 
> Between 0.95 and 1.0, there should be a two month period of heightened 
> bugfixing, testing, documentation.
> 
> Development of new features can take place, but they must not land in the 
> trunk before 1.0 - they should be managed out-of-trunk in whatever way the 
> developer in question prefers. Development of such new features should to 
> be allowed to seriously detract from the 1.0 release process.
> 
> Any deadlines which are likely to require serious amounts of developer 
> time between now and 1.0 should be declared now; and surprise removal of 
> developers to work on non-1.0 work which could have been declared at this 
> stage but weren't should not be permitted. For me, the only such deadline 
> is the provenance challenge workshop in mid-June.
>