When will 1.8 be branched?

[Petr Janda]

Jose timofonic wrote:
--- Petr Janda <elekktretterr at exemail.com.au>
escribió:
  
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
    
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:44:48 +1100
Petr Janda <elekktretterr at exemail.com.au> wrote:
  
      
I think you are being slightly absurd. If you
        
want DragonFly to go into 
    
businesses/corporations you have to be prepared
        
they *have* demands , 
    
    
        
	Nobody has any business making demands of
      
volunteers.
    
  
      
and they are much bigger than mine "is it gonna
        
be branched today as 
    
planned",
    
        
	Personally I would much rather see branching and
      
releases happening
    
when the developers feel it is ready to happen
      
than on a planned date.
    
	That being said the DragonFLy team seems to do
      
better at hitting
    
the planned dates than most commercial OS
      
developments.
    
  
      
I don't make the demands but I am demanded by my
clients to satisfy them 
by supplying them a good product. If it was entirely
up to me I wouldnt 
be making the inquiries at all(I dont care if its
released in january or 
3 months later) but I have clients, hence why Ive
often turned to 
FreeBSD when DF was missing a feature which I
needed. Therefore I might 
be sounding to have demanding tone, but thats
because DF is my personal 
OS of choice and especially because of my clients.
(not that they 
specifically request DF but because thats what I
offer them + maintenance).

My apologies.

Petr

    
I'm an early newbie and not having clue about
development but... Have you considered to pay
developers for having those exact branching dates and
features you want for your clients? If you receive
something for free, I think you can't demand
something. If you pay explicitely for it (and I don't
mean just donations), then you can.
As I've seen as in my stupid user experience on other
projects, it's better to not give dates when you are
unsure to comply them. Then is better to give
approximately dates thinking in the worst situation,
so if it's released earlier it will look like a nice
surprise ;)
		
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I've already been doing it in a way as the *context functions come out 
of my pocket. I sort of don't see point in pay for branching dates 
though as they are inevitable (as in they will always happen at some 
stage). As I said before I'm gonna have to push the deadline by a couple 
of days or I will update to 1.8 remotely (which i wanted to avoid in 
first place since who knows how that server will take it)

Petr