Revisiting: updates release schedule
Given the recent update 9/10 release issue, I believe it's time to revisit the question of updates release cycle.
I believe that if Jolla in the spirit of openness, followed the open mantra of release early, release often, they could have a git branch for each small fix, tracking the current stable, and as soon as each one becomes stable itself, get it out the door, and update the stable with that patch, cascading to the follower branches.
This way, we instead of waiting a long time for a big release (which by having several fixes and improvements, has an increased complexity), and trying to hit a monthly date, and missing, we would have regular small and simple updates, improving the phone step by step, and always getting an updated phone, unlike...
EDIT: It's been 2 months, and still no official update 9, let alone update 10. My network is still terribly unstable! This question should seriously be considered!
You think just like me! I agree your post This way should be better for have minor bugs and issues; and make ours Sailfish more stable
michdeskunk ( 2014-10-14 17:30:49 +0200 )editSounds simple, you are just forgetting all the dependencies, many of those small fixes would require full testing rounds of the entire OS, quite big resources are needed to do several of those in short period of time.
VDVsx ( 2014-10-16 17:23:36 +0200 )edithave you heard of continuos integration services? Automated testing?
dsilveira ( 2014-10-17 15:50:19 +0200 )editI think everyone could understand that some updates might take longer. What is annoying is that they block the release of a lot of other smaller ones, like most of the top voted questions on TJC regarding interface improvements (on lipstick and Jolla apps). I think what I'm suggesting is reasonable, and probably even needed to keep users happy and feeling appreciated!
dsilveira ( 2014-10-17 15:54:04 +0200 )editYes, those look great on paper but not always work as 'advertised', not counting the amount of work and resources needed to automate many uses cases. If things were so simple why big companies take so long to release SW updates for their devices ? I'm pretty sure they have a 'few more' resources than Jolla :)
VDVsx ( 2014-10-17 16:07:21 +0200 )edit