Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 08:55:56 Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> We're still going to have to pay the full cost of doing a release every
>> time. With beta/rc management, release notes, announcements, postings,
>> packaging and all those things.
> As I pointed out to Tom, by percentage the additional beta/release cycles
> wouldn't be very different than what we have now; the more churn you have
> during development, the longer it takes to beta/release.
I don't believe that thesis in itself, because it ignores economies of
scale and parallelism for beta testing. And in any case it's complete
nonsense in respect to back-branch maintenance costs. If we double
the frequency of releases we are going to be pretty much forced to halve
the support lifetime, and ain't nobody going to be happy with us.
regards, tom lane