Time and Tide Don't Wait for FOSS Projects | Linux Today

Time and Tide Don’t Wait for FOSS Projects

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Sam Varghese
Jan 30, 2008

“Should free and open source software projects set a release
schedule that adheres to the old geek adage: release when it’s
ready? Or should time-based releases become the norm?

“Martin Michlmayr , a senior FOSS developer and a former Debian
project leader who now works with HP’s open source and Linux
organisation as an open source community expert, certainly thinks
the latter option is better…”

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