findbugs [LSARC/2008/642 FastTrack timeout 10/27/2008]

[James Carlson]

Dean Roehrich writes:
> You're asking if they're going to port every point release, or if, once per
> time-unit (week, quarter, year, whatever) they'll just pick the latest at that
> time?  Doesn't this apply to every FOSS case?  Where does this question
> belong--ARC, C-Team, Management?  It's not clear to me that it belongs at the
> ARC level.

I think it varies in different cases.

Sure, we don't want FOSS (or, really, _anything_ -- FOSS isn't that
different from other software) to become stale, and semi-frequent
updates are desirable.  I agree that this is mostly a management
issue.

There may be an architecture-worthy comment, though, if you say you're
chasing some fast-moving design, and if there are notable dependencies
on it that require synchronized delivery, or if the delivery mechanism
doesn't appear to match that goal.  If so, then I think that rates a
good "so how will you accomplish this over time?" sort of question.

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