Finally, someone agrees with me. :) On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Edward Almasy wrote: > Chris Warren writes: > > I agree, if updates came out in frequent small 'STEPS', I would feel compelled > > to use them as they came out. This would drain all my time: Just imagine havin > > to put all the patches and your own code in AGAIN every month. I can tell you > > that I would have no time to write new code. Its definately better having say > > two big releases a year. > > There are two big advantages to smaller, incremental releases: 1) > because of the nature of the "patch" program, smaller changes are much > more likely to merge in without any manual intervention, and 2) with > more frequent releases bug fixes can be incorporated as they come up, > improving the signal-to-noise ratio on this mailing list. > > I would prefer smaller, more frequent updates. As it is we're pretty > much guaranteed to have to manually incorporate any updates because the > changes they represent are such a large leap from the previous revision. > > Greymalk > The Ninth Circle (quarry.axisdata.com 5000) > greymalk@axisdata.com > > > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | > | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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