Hi all,

Perhaps a way forward would be to tag a rc release, ask distributors
to package and test it (e.g. pushing to Fedora Rawhide, but not Fedora
36), and then push the actual official release a week or two later?

Certainly aiming to do releases monthly is much healthier than doing
releases every few years. I think it's much more achievable to set the
expectation to the end user "sorry for the regression! it'll be fixed
in your distro in ~3 weeks, in the meantime use the previous release"
than trying to squash every bug and add all the features before
tagging a mythical beautiful bug-free "feature complete" release.

Richard.

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 10:19, Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Anastasia,
>
> On 16.10.22 23:41, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote:
> > Nico what was the goal why you started this thread?
>
> I wanted to evaluate how immediate a release is. Also, maybe
> subconsciously (on my end), to raise awareness among developers
> that we want to do releases.
>
> I learned some new things between my first two emails, overall
> that has changed my intentions to raising awareness.
>
> >
> > I thought for a moment, you have a *quick* question. So I answered.
> > Now you seem to be unhappy to learn that we are closer to the release
> > than 1/2 yr ago.
>
> It seems hard to assess to me. I want to make sure that we don't
> miss anything. For instance, the progress in the tickets: A lot
> have been closed. But some of them look like they were low-hanging
> fruits, i.e. easy to fix. While bigger issues remain and at least
> one new issue popped up, as you mentioned. I find it very hard to
> measure.
>
> > You are saying "But I don't believe you", what was the point of asking then?
>
> I did not say that nor did I intend to make it look like this. I still
> feel misunderstood and that we are talking past each other. I didn't
> mean to ask "how many tickets are open" or "what was merged". These are
> things that are easily visible. I guess what I really want to know is
> "did the regression rate decline?", "does it look like the review
> process changed enough so that it could?".
>
> Nico
>
> PS. Anastasia, there is a lot of "you, you, you" in your email. This
> can get very emotional. I don't see a need to get personal nor to fight.
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