[mapguide-psc] MapGuide Release Process - proposal

[Paul Spencer]

I think it is acceptable to ship a product with known bugs, as long  
as they are minor and they are documented, especially if they have  
known work-arounds.

There is always an exception to prove the rule.  My recommendation is  
that the rule is to not ship with known issues ... the PSC (as a  
whole) can override anything - but if we set out good rules, we will  
have to really justify it to ourselves to break the rule.

Cheers

Paul

On 26-Oct-06, at 9:11 PM, Jason Birch wrote:

> I don't know how others feel about this, but I would like an escape  
> valve of being able to ship a minor release with known bugs if they  
> are minor functionality and major effort to fix, and are discovered  
> after a second RC.  I don't want to get stuck in the "wait until  
> it's perfect" trap.  At some point, you have to shoot the engineer ;)
>
> Jason
>
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> From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pspencer at dmsolutions.ca]
> Sent: Thu 2006-10-26 1:08 PM
> To: psc at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-psc] MapGuide Release Process - proposal
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> Based on my email, I've prepared a wiki page documenting my proposal
> for a release process for MapGuide.  Please feel free to edit and/or
> provide feedback via the list.
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> Please note that it will be hard to perfect this until we actually do
> a release or two.
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> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/MapGuide_Release_Process
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> Cheers
>
> Paul
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