"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message news:20040627153020.M97518@crystalclearsoftware.com... | On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 08:53:29 -0400, David Abrahams wrote | > I'd like to know the reasons for "all the sudden rush". We did | | I agree with Dave on this -- the release was advertised ages ago. As much as | I'd like to see circular_buffer, serialization, etc in this release I'd rather | see us pull off a release that doesn't take 2-3 months to accomplish. Understandable. I'm just asking so I know if I should use some time in my vacation or not. If there is no extra week, I see no reason for doing those preparations. | > announce a schedule long ago, and it has already been delayed by | > three weeks. I'm not asking in order to point fingers; I just want | > to know how to avoid the "sudden rush" next time. How come we have | > so many accepted libraries that have not even been put in the CVS? [snip] | The other thing that seems to be a | pattern is that libraries get accepted, then authors get a list of changes to | make. If they get busy it often takes months to get these done and then | finally they check into CVS. So a release tends to trigger the evaluation of | anything that is in that multi-month pipeline. At least in my case that has been the situation. I'm the one to blame for not getting a post-review out sooner, but I never really seemed to have the weekend that it would take to do so. Then exams hit, and soon I'm moving back home and travelling a bit. br Thorsten