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Philosphy of releases

If you haven’t noticed by now, I tend to release smaller releases more often. I know there isn’t much precedent for that as Mack has only been out a week, and there’s only been three releases, but I can assure you, it’s a sign of things to come.

I feel that at this stage in a code’s life cycle, it benefits from getting out into the wild sooner, rather then later. Sure, I could bulk up features and bug fixes and do big ‘wow’ factor releases, but why should I sit on a cool feature or an important bug fix simply so I can have a bit of ‘wow’? Why not let people start to enjoy those new features, and give me important feedback earlier?

I’m sure as the code tree grows and people start really using Mack, things may slow down a bit. When there are more developers then just myself, things will definitely slow down a pace, but until then, I just don’t see the point in holding back.

When I have something cool and ready to go, I’m going to release it. You don’t have to upgrade your Mack environment if you don’t want to, you can if you want. If you would prefer to ‘bulk’ them up yourself, then that’s entirely up to you. Like I’ve said before, Mack is trying to be as non-opinionated as it can be. That includes how you update your system.

Anyway, I just thought I would share a bit of how things will be handled going forward. I hope that’s fine with you.

Have a good weekend.

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3 Responses to “Philosphy of releases”

  1. Matt Todd Says:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    Hey, haven’t had the time to journey through the code again since Friday, but just thought I’d recommend checking out http://lighthouseapp.com/ for Bug tracking, et al. Great software.

    Also, I didn’t see any music on Blue Wires blog (only looked under Music)… am I blind?

    Matt

  2. Mark Bates Says:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Hey Matt, I’ll check out light house. I’m not very happy with RubyForge, anything has to be better then that, and judging by the amount of interest I’ve gotten in the less then a week that Mack has been in the wild, it sounds like I definitely need something.

    As for the Blue Wires, we’re actually recording our first songs as we speak. We only got together right after Christmas, so we’re a brand new band. We haven’t even played a show yet. The 3 songs we’re recording right now should be finished by the end of the March/beginning of April.

  3. Mark Bates Says:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    Oh, and sometime tomorrow I’m going to release 0.1.0. It will have an inflection system, and a new scaffold/resource generator.