Re: [GMG-Devel] Switching from monthly releases to bi-monthly (keeping monthly meetings though)

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Sigh, I meant bimonthly, and here I said biweekly which completely
contradicts what I was trying to say.

Must be all that holidaze ;)

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> writes:

> For the avoidance of doubt, by "biweekly" I mean "every other month",
> not "twice a month". :)
>
> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We've done some discussing on IRC and we tend to think that switching
>> from a monthly to a bi-monthly release schedule makes sense.  As is,
>> usually a release takes at least one week, then people are burnt out or
>> whatever the next week, then we do some real work for the next two
>> weeks, then it's back to scrambling over another release.  Our project
>> is becoming bigger, which means certain features are also getting bigger
>> and sometimes take longer to do.  I think we can have more exciting and
>> productive releases by moving to bi-monthly releases, and everyone on
>> IRC agreed.
>>
>> However, we'd like to keep the monthly contributor meetings, as those
>> help maintain the "heartbeat" of the project at its current rhythm.
>> This could be helpful too as it means that halfway through the release
>> cycle we can get some good feedback on where we're at.
>>
>> Sounds good to everyone?  Looks like that's the direction we're heading.
>> That means that this somewhat unexciting to announce in-transition
>> release this weekend will also be skipped for the much-more-exciting
>> release that's coming next month.
>>
>> Also, happy new year everyone!  2011 was awesome for MediaGoblin... but
>> could 2012 be the year of the MediaGoblin federated media webtop? ;)
>>  - cwebb
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