Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org writes:
The alternative, truthfully, is choosing between shipping Ubuntu with a 2+months out of date Wine version or an untested one. Either option sucks.
I don't see how we can possibly have a tested release ready every time some distro decides to ship. On the contrary, since distros don't give a damn about Wine and usually do their best to break it (page zero issue anyone?), we are better off releasing after a major distro release so that we have a chance to find and fix the latest breakages first.
Let's face it, we effectively have time-based releases now, since with the features-based model 1.0 kept getting pushed back for years and years. Now, that we've finally set a date, we're actually going to have one ;)
It's still very much a feature-based model, only of course the desirable features have been shifting as Microsoft shipped new stuff and people wanted to run new apps before we supported the old ones properly... A deadline is of course necessary at some point, but the date was only set once we got to the point that a release looked within reach.
Of course our next releases hopefully won't take 15 years each, but I think it's too early to say if the next release will take 6 months or 2 years.