I was at Mozilla when we switched from 3-to-6-monthly releases to 6-weekly releases. It really was an enormous positive improvement. > you can close it off 5 m

I was at Mozilla when we switched from 3-to-6-monthly releases to 6-weekly releases. It really was an enormous positive improvement. > you can close it off 5 months in and then stabilise for a month. This doesn't help. If a release happens every six months then regardless of what you do during the release cycle, you are faced with situations where someone has a work item just about ready to ship in release X, but not quite, and you face enormous pressure to ship it in release X rather than in release X+1 six months later. On the flip side if you do force it to slip to release X+1 then that's several months of users not having the benefit even though it's ready. If you're releasing every six weeks, there isn't any such pressure. Less work is shipped prematurely, less work is shipped later than necessary, and developers are less stressed.