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Why does ProMods not do fixed release intervals?

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 09:57
by erkinalp
Why does ProMods not do fixed release intervals?

Re: Why does ProMods not do fixed release intervals?

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 10:04
by bmwGTR
Hi,
because when we would give release dates and the map is not finished, people would start complaining (and release a unfinished version full of bugs).
So we release the next version of the map when it's ready.

Best regards,
bmwGTR

Re: Why does ProMods not do fixed release intervals?

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 10:11
by erkinalp
unfinished version full of bugs
It is solved by feature freezes.

Re: Why does ProMods not do fixed release intervals?

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 10:13
by Volleybal4life
Modding doesn't work as simple as that.

Feature freezing one thing, may result in problems somewhere else. So we need to feature freeze that too.
Which may result in issues somewhere else, and so on.....

So no, we won't make a release schedule.

Re: Why does ProMods not do fixed release intervals?

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 11:51
by MandelSoft
Besides, the intermediate releases (like 2.25 and 2.26) are related to patches or DLCs from SCS. This means that our release schedule is partially controlled by a third party.

Also, it's hard to put set release dates on a project that's basically run by volunteers where availabile work hours vary a lot. We do plan in feature freezes, but you can't plan for unexpected hard problems to pop up...