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When I hear someone suggest that shipping quarterly releases means that we need to change/lower expectations for quality to meet a faster paced shipping schedule, it's like fingernails on a blackboard to my ears. Probably the same for mevans as well. ' | When I hear someone suggest that shipping quarterly releases means that we need to change/lower expectations for quality to meet a faster paced shipping schedule, it's like fingernails on a blackboard to my ears. Probably the same for mevans and many others as well. ' | ||
The history above shows that a monthly-quarterly release schedule can actually have a dramatic and positive effect on quality, where the quality level of a disastrous Netscape 6/Mozilla 0.6 was incrementally transformed into increasingly better milestones that also lead to successful Mozilla 1.0 and then Firefox 1.0 releases. | The history above shows that a monthly-quarterly release schedule can actually have a dramatic and positive effect on quality, where the quality level of a disastrous Netscape 6/Mozilla 0.6 was incrementally transformed into increasingly better milestones that also lead to successful Mozilla 1.0 and then Firefox 1.0 releases. | ||