Time-based release actually works well

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It's not necessarily a bad idea. Indeed, changing your schedule so that it meets your
customers' is a good idea, and most people use X.org from a distro - not directly.
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I find the increasing popularity of time-based releases to be refreshing and encouraging...
after years of hearing the phrase "it's ready when it's ready"  used to cover for a lack of a
proper release plan by some projects.

Deadlines mean that people have to buckle down and do the unfun stuff rather than perpetually
working on cool new stuff that's never quite ready for release.