[Lazarus] Release schedule and policy

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 25.10.2010 10:42, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Op 2010-10-25 10:27, Marco van de Voort het geskryf:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Maybe the Linux project was not the best example, because as you say, it
> has commercial funding. So rather look at the Git project then. It has many
> many branches (though only a select few are made public on a public server
> - for end-user convenience). The Git project also has a "stable" branch, an
> "experimental branch", a "fixes / maintenance" branch etc. All managed by a
> single person (Junio) - not being paid for the job. And that single person
> still has time for his own development too.

And? Git is only 300k LOC, it requires only a part time branch manager.
Fine. The Linux kernel is 12M LOC: six full time branch managers. This
narrows it down how much branch managing the 1.5M LOC of Lazarus would
require: almost one full time branch manager. You? Juha? Anyone?