Wednesday June 16, 2004

To myself, for the Nth time, *never underestimate the effort behind doing a release*

And I'm talking about a small project, Rome v0.2 (It's almost there).

Getting the code changes integrated it's the easy part. Getting all the supporting materials ready is a Pharaonic task. General documentation, changeslog, tutorials, javadocs, updating the samples, testing the samples, preparing the distribution bundles and staging all this in the site. Ensuring (or at least trying to) everything has been updated.

We don't want to get into the we can do that later approach as most of the times later becomes asymptotic to never.

With Rome we are still organizing the site. Deciding where things should go etc. We are using Rome Wiki as the main (and only for now) documentation source, we have to decide what documents we want to keep alive (changing as we go) and what documents we want to freeze with every release. Maybe things will get easier after we have all this settled. I'm making a mental note (too bad I keep losing them) to comment again on this for Rome v0.3, to see if things got better.