"Tick-tock" release cadence?

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 20:01 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 04.12.2014 um 19:57 schrieb Adam Jackson:
> > I think it's a bit misguided to even think of these things as related.
> > "Polish" in an end-user-visible sense is itself a list of tasks and
> > criteria that require dedicated attention, preferably from someone with
> > the breadth of experience and lack of fear to be able to dive into
> > whatever needs fixing.  It's not a coat of paint you let cure for six
> > months, it's a process
> 
> history and repeatly closed bugs showing that this "process" don't work 
> very well and one reason is for sure that many contributors are 
> overloaded with doing that "polish" and keep track with prepare the next 
> release *and* rawhide at the same time

That it has not worked well does not imply that it can not work.  More
likely it implies that we've simply _done a bad job_.

You'll note I also suggested dedicated resources for the task, which is
precisely not single contributors being overloaded.

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