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At 09:32 AM 12/11/2012, Rainer Duffner wrote:

>For the future, I also suggest not to make a timeline or a public
>schedule at all.

Less communication rather than more? I would not be in favor of this.
YMMV, but it seems to me that this is more the way of large, secretive
corporations like Apple than it is of a collaborative open source project.
And it is important to have targets.

Transparency is vital. I do not mind justified schedule slippages,
so long as I can track progress and plan appropriately. It is when I
(and everyone else) are in the dark that things get difficult.

--Brett Glass