[Adium-devl] Minor updates

[Chris Forsythe]

Sorry about the late reply, my email sending capabilities as of late  
have been.. less than adequate. :)

Anyhow, so I'm not a fan of this suggestion for the following reasons:

1) We're a group of less than 10 people who have rather odd  
schedules. Priorities for everyone should be their own lives first,  
setting a schedule puts pressure on everyone, and I don't want to  
have to remove commit bits to keep people from flunking out of college.

2) Everyone is a volunteer. If we miss a scheduled release, what  
would happen in a volunteer organization versus a paid organization?  
In my opinion, you can't enforce deadlines with an organization like  
we have.

3) Schedules are sometimes the worst thing you can do to a volunteer  
force. I tried this with Growl, it didn't work out very well. If we  
miss a schedule, what can I do? It just leads to demoralizing  
everyone, because not only have you let yourself and everyone else  
down, you can't really catch up to meet the next one without putting  
a lot more time and effort into finishing past due+current. Which  
leads back to #1

4) In my opinion, release early and often is something that a lot of  
users associate us with. I like the idea that people associate us  
with being very responsive to their needs rather than on a set  
schedule like a corporation. This is what sets us apart from others,  
and is one of our purple cows (http://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow- 
Transform-Business-Remarkable/dp/159184021X). It's really something  
to be proud of.

5) It doesn't feel like Adium to me. It just feels corporate. I know,  
this is weird, but it just seems.. not adium. I don't have a better  
explanation, I'm sorry about that.

6) We have a ton on our plate all of the time as it is.


When I reply it may be a few days from now.

Chris



On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> Just got an email on feedback complaining that we're updating too
> frequently.
>
> Not that it would have helped much in this case, but maybe we want to
> schedule minor releases (1.1.x) to be roughly every N weeks unless
> there is a *serious* issue that needs to be addressed immediately
> (data loss, connectivity, security).
>
> Right now things are largely arbitrary and work fairly well, but the
> process is largely Evan driven, and it doesn't necessarily need to be.
>
> Just some food for thought.
>
> -Colin
>
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