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When I was working on open source at Google this was also something we had to be very careful with: you don't want to make promises you can't keep. But this wa
by jefftk 4y ago
When I was working on open source at Google this was also something we had to be very careful with: you don't want to make promises you can't keep. But this wasn't as strict as what Apple does, and vague estimates were allowed.
For example, here's what Chrome does: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule. All the dates are tentative and sometimes slip, but an engineer can point people to it, say "fix X made the branch cutoff for release NNN", and you can get a pretty good prediction for when X will get to what sort of devices.
- AshleysBrain 4y agoThat Chromium dashboard is amazing for planning and exactly the kind of thing we need for Safari.
- cpeterso 4y agoMozilla has a similar dashboard for Firefox releases and announces (tentative) release dates for the next 9-12 months: https://whattrainisitnow.com/ https://whattrainisitnow.com/ https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/ https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/
- saagarjha 4y agoYeah, to be clear, people make jokes about Apple being unable to confirm that there will ever be another iPhone. They're funny because they're mostly true.