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[Duane Macolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

I agree. In this case, our first milestone should be a brief list of 
bugs that need to fixed. I believe phoenix isn't implementing features 
but is fixing bug for it's next release.

Dufflebunk wrote:

> 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:
>
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> > 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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