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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

The problem w/ milestones is that a lot of our work is fixing what worked 
before, not adding funtionality (as phoenix is). I'm not saying it won't 
work, I'm just pointing out a big difference.

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Duane Macolm wrote:

> I think this is similar to how the phoenix browser is released. The 
> phoenix developers have set milestones for each release and set 
> approximate dates on each release, which they don't strictly adhere to. 
> For example, for the 0.1-0.4 releases, a release day was specified (some 
> were missed) and for the 0.5 release November was the release date, yet 
> it wasn't released until December. The link below gives a great 
> illustration of this...
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-roadmap.html
> 
> I like this method because it breaks goals into managable tasks.
> 
> Duane.
> 
> Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> >Casey Harkins said:
> >  
> >
> >>I agree with this. Keep the grimoires and sorcery moving independent of
> >>each other. I understand this was a problem in the push to 1.0 as new
> >>sorcery features required spell modifications, but this is mostly taken
> >>care of.
> >>
> >>As far as release dates for sorcery, I agree with Dufflebank that we
> >>should still have release dates, but maybe they shouldn't be so rigid.
> >>Choose a target date, and adjust as the date draws closer.
> >>
> >>-casey
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Perhaps have Milestones, but without dates attached?  Or maybe just
> >general ideas, like "Summer of 2003", or "Autumn 2009", etcetera?  Once we
> >get closer to those dates, then we can narrow down to the month, perhaps
> >even the day, then if we need more time, we can extend those, but still
> >try to keep it within the Milestone timeline.
> >
> >-One of Four
> >a.k.a. sandalle
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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