[Webtest] [dev] roadmap or who is doing what

[Marc Guillemot]

I agree to most of your arguments except concerning issue priority: it's an open source project and therefore mostly 
made by people on an unpaid base (more precisely they are paid to do their job in which they use webtest, but not paid 
to develop webtest as it). Therefore feature will surely continue to come "because [I] need it". We can and should 
define a roadmap for "the big picture" but for my part I can't imagine keeping for myself something I've added to 
webtest because I absolutely needed it even if it's not in the roadmap.

Marc.


Paul King wrote:
> Dierk Koenig wrote:
> 
>>> I still think more frequent releases might help.
>>
>>
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>> What timeframe do you have in mind (weeks or so)?
>>
>> cheers
>> Mittie
> 
> 
> I think something like 3-6 months for each release
> with the ability to release quicker if we need (e.g.
> to fix some serious problem or if a large amount
> of functionality was added at a particular point
> in time). I am not religious about the exact time
> but that timeframe feels about right to me for what
> I think will benefit us and our customers the most.
> 
> My thinking regarding benefits to customers:
> 
> Early adopters are always going to go for the latest
> release and they will be happy to do their planning
> based on CVS histories and their own debugging.
> However, the rest of WebTest's customer base
> probably need to plan introduction of new versions
> of software and having releases allows all concerned
> to gain confidence in the functionality that particular
> releases provide and better plan migration to particular
> releases.
> 
> My thinking regarding benefits to us:
> 
> Having a release gives us the chance to pause from
> our normal "add a feature because I need it" approach
> and think through what makes sense to include in a
> release and force us to try to get our house in order.
> It also allows us to prioritise issues by releases.
> We can allocate fixes to particular releases and know
> what is coming up. It also gives us a greater ability
> to celebrate our achievements if we choose.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> WebTest mailing list
> WebTest@lists.canoo.com
> http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
>