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Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

That's not necessarily the case. There's plenty of evidence that continuous delivery can lead to better software.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I agree in some respects. If you have something like Gnome with 6 month development cycles, you are kinda encouraged to push features even if they are not ready, otherwise you have to wait 6 months to try again. And as we've seen with stuff like triple buffering, it was painful. It was almost ready, missed the cycle, then other Gnome changes were made, then it had to be rebased, then go back to step 1.

    With a shorter cycle, missing a cycle isn't as big of a deal and in theory you can polish it more without it being the end of the world.

    But Firefox already had a monthly release cycle. I don't see how going from a monthly to fortnightly is really that different.

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