[wp-hackers] 120-day release cycle

[Elliotte Harold]

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> What could the release cycle look like?
> 
> 2 months of crazy fun wild development where anything goes
> 1 month of polishing things a little bit, and performance
> Feature freeze.
> 1 month of testing, with a public beta release at the beginning
> 
> After we're done and 2.2 is out, we can see how it went and decide where 
> to go from there.
> 
> What do you folks think about trying this type of release schedule out?

It's better to set up separate branches in the source repository so the 
crazy fun wild development can run in parallel with the testing and 
polishing.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo at metalab.unc.edu
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