Brave new (1.0) world.

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:46:30PM -0500, Will Coleda wrote:
> It was also my understanding that the 1.5 release was similarly
> time-based. However, both 1.0 and 1.5 have a lot of features/goals,
> and since we can't fix the feature list AND the release date, which is
> the sticking point? (I'm willing to treat 1.0 differently, but 1.5 and
> onward should all follow the same guidelines.)

It's always been my understanding that we do time-based releases, and
that continues with the milestone releases and their numbering.  Thus 
the July 2009 release will be 1.5, and if anything has to slip it
will be the feature set and not the number or release date.

At PDS when coming up with the feature set for each release, 
the goal was to identify the latest date/release at which we 
expected that feature to be available, so that there hopefully
wouldn't be much slippage.  How effective we are at such estimates
remains to be determined...

Pm