Google speeds up Chrome updates
THE CHROME BROWSER is getting a new accelerated release roll out process says Google.
According to the search outfit, and probably under ideal conditions, there will be a new stable version of Chrome about once every six weeks. This is twice as often as it used to be.
Google’s cunning plan is to shorten the release cycle while still getting new features, make the update more predictable and reduce the pressure on engineering to “make” a release. We wonder how long it will be before the six weeks becomes seven or eight or ten even.
We’re certainly not sure how the reducing pressure will work given that the schedule will be tighter. Google said that under the old model, when it faced a deadline with an incomplete feature, engineers had to rush or work overtime to complete the feature by the deadline. And that will change now how? Otherwise the release was delayed or the feature was disabled for three months. How disappointing.
“With the new schedule, if a given feature is not complete, it will simply ride on the the next release train when it’s ready,” Google said. So the release will be delayed then, just like the search outfit did before anyway. µ
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