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Zero Harpuia
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Posted - 2013.10.01 17:49:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:To be clear, since we are on the monthly (or roughly monthly anyways) release schedule we don't sit back 6 months in advance and plan what will be in each and every release.
I can't speak for every team on the project but at least for us here on True Grit we have a plan for the order in which we want to do things and we have an estimate as to how long each will take. So if someone in the company asks when feature X will be out we can say "about release Y." However in reality we work on features and then release them when they are done.
So when you ask what the purpose of the 1.6 release is, being honest, the purpose is to be a release that can carry the things that are done out. When we finish features we move them from our teams branch to the main DUST branch and they just go out with the next release.
TL;DR: 1.6, and all our monthly releases, serve the purpose of allow the devs to release whatever features/fixes/updates/etc. that are ready at that time.
We understand that a release is defined as when you release things. Most of us passed 3rd grade reading comprehension. He obviously meant 'Do ANY of you have ANYTHING ready for 1.6?' The lawyer act is more irritating then silence. You can dislike silence, but you can hate a bad response. |
Zero Harpuia
Turalyon 514
Turalyon Alliance
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Posted - 2013.10.01 18:30:00 -
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Reav Hannari wrote:CCP FoxFour wrote:TL;DR: 1.6, and all our monthly releases, serve the purpose of allow the devs to release whatever features/fixes/updates/etc. that are ready at that time. This is it in a nutshell (or a TL;DR). You try and tell people and they don't listen. I really don't get the ones that say hold the release until next month to be able to add whatever feature.
I haven't heard anyone ask for them to hold for a month, but there were plenty reasonably asking to hold off for a few weeks. What most people do not understand about this cascading structure is that it is just as prone to slippage and 'just one more' as your standard 'insert feature when ready' update plan. Well, except Vehicle users, they're intimately aware of that. In cascading, a feature is almost done, but doesn't quite make it? Delayed a month. Want to add just one more thing to it? Delayed. Not being worked on to try and get into the monthlies? Forgotten n the backburner and delayed. The prevailing opinion of those that feel that Wolfman and his team are almost done with X and that the update should be held back is a reasonable enough point of view if you bother to think on it. Added to that the general lack of content for '1.5' and those people don't feel bad about asking to hold everything back. They aren't holding back vehicle updates or a new weapon if they stall so many of the big forum names like Jaraiya(Heavies) Char and Maple(HAVs) or others don't have to argue either way, as far as I know the only person who would be saddened by the current 'update' being postponed is the DUST Uni CEO. Without a big player stating their opinion and giving a valued response on the issue besides Maple finding out that Vehicles are SO unready as to not even go into 1.7, people have nothing to rally around one way or the other. Therefore, the community at large has no closure and you keep seeing little guys try to get out their fragmented versions of the thread.
So, in short, holding back 1.5 a few weeks is a reasonable POV because it entails holding nothing back and getting something two and a half weeks earlier than we would if we had to wait for the November cascade. |
Zero Harpuia
Turalyon 514
Turalyon Alliance
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Posted - 2013.10.02 01:08:00 -
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Reav Hannari wrote:Zero Harpuia wrote:So, in short, holding back 1.5 a few weeks is a reasonable POV because it entails holding nothing back and getting something two and a half weeks earlier than we would if we had to wait for the November cascade. One month = 4 weeks A few weeks ~ 3 weeks = almost the next release Don't forget scheduling Sony QA
True, politics forever take precedence, marring any and all final products. Although you could take them into account before and keep it at 2.5 weeks, while a month is 4.5 weeks. Still a reasonable enough point of view. |
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