heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:50:14 -0400
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > I do too. I suspect for situations like this we at a minimum need to
> > adopt a more formal process for pulling feedback/votes/whatever outside
> > of the meeting timeframe, whether it's calling a special session, enforcing
> > a 'you must vote in the ticket by this timeframe or your vote is counted
> > as <foo>', or something else.
> 
> You left out removing the fanatical devotion to releasing every six months :-).
> I've really never understood that one. Why is virtually everything subordinate
> to getting a release out at an artificial deadline? Why not just release when
> there appears to be enough things working to justify a new release?

...or, since the current justification for having stable releases at all
is 'to handle upgrade cases we can't handle with yum', have a new stable
release only when we hit such a case (and try to hit as few such cases
as possible)...
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