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[Scott Ritchie]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:45 -0700, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Friday, December 16, 2005, 11:26:28 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 19:48 +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> >> The goal is not to prevent regressions between every minor point
> >> release, it's to make releases frequently enough that regressions can
> >> be found and fixed quickly, so that they don't creep into the next
> >> major release. Now, if you think that doesn't work I'm certainly open
> >> to doing things differently. What do you suggest?
> >> 
> > If I may make a humble suggestion, it would be to time another stable
> > (or semi-stable), regression-proofed release to roughly coincide with
> > the various distributions freezing schedules.  Ubuntu, for instance has
> > an upstream version freeze on Jan 19th and a Feature Freeze on Feb 2nd.
> > In my ideal world, we would have a Wine release just before that Jan
> > 19th deadline, go into regression-fix and bughunt mode, and then have a
> > release come out around Feb 2nd that had no regressions relative to 0.9
> > and the Jan 19th release.
> 
> That sounds to aggressive to me. We still a long ways away from major
> pieces falling into place. Most regressions you see, especially with
> games caused be major developments in d3d part of Wine. I don't think
> that will be "fixed" by then.

Add six months, then, to time it with the next release.  That sounds
reasonable.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie