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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...

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...