[Lazarus] Release schedule and policy

[Marco van de Voort]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:20:39AM +0100, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
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> good idea, but what actually stops us from adopting the Linux model ?

About 6 dedicated paid people (and a whole bunch more volunteers) to manage
all the branches and review and administrate each patch to reitegrate all
the various patches into a few production trees.
 
The Linux kernel workflow, being security and stability sensitive in nearly
every line of code is totally different from a normal project, and
extremely costly in manpower.  Moreover it relies on some central (bosses)
being able to put in a lot of time into the project on a regular, guaranteed
basis, which is hard if they are not at least partially fulltime.