Point releases for the GNU C Library

Posted Oct 19, 2017 9:35 UTC (Thu) by swilmet (subscriber, #98424)
In reply to: Point releases for the GNU C Library by pitrou
Parent article: Point releases for the GNU C Library

I also find it strange that releasing a new version is a significant amount of work.

“Release early, release often.”

“If it hurts, do it more often.”
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FrequencyReducesDifficulty...

Point releases for the GNU C Library

Posted Oct 26, 2017 9:26 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

"Difficulty" and "effort" are two completely different things.

Many moons ago, I wrote a Critical Path Analysis system. If I have, say, five people, and I have a bunch of jobs that require a person on site, there is a strict upper limit as to how often I can repeat those jobs.

Oh - and asking those same five people to work longer hours is counter-productive. It's called burn-out - squeezing more hours out usually gives you more billable hours for less work done.

Cheers,
Wol