The Book: Timeline
I’ve come up with a timeline for completion of the book. My version control was inspired by Firefox.
Book: Project timeline
Start date: Tuesday; June 13, 2006
Release Date: Wednesday; September 13, 2006
Short term goal(s): Bound version for review every 9 days.
“90 Day” goal: Version 1.0 available for students on Wednesday; September 13, 2006
[v. 0.1] – Wednesday; June 21, 2006 (complete)
[v. 0.2] – Friday, June 30, 2006 (complete)
[v. 0.3] – Sunday, July 9, 2006 (complete)
[v. 0.4] – Tuesday, July 18, 2006 (complete)
[v. 0.5] – Thursday, July 27, 2006 (complete)
[v. 0.6] – Saturday, August 5, 2006 (complete)
[v. 0.7] – Monday, August 14, 2006 (complete)
[v. 0.8] – Wednesday, August 23, 2006 (incomplete)
[v. 0.9] – Friday, September 1, 2006 (incomplete)
1.0 (Preview Release) – Sunday, September 10, 2006 (incomplete)
1.0 (Official Version) – Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (1st day of teaching) (incomplete) – See my 90 Day Check-in here
The idea is to release early and release often. Every nine days I’ll bind a copy together for review by my peers, students, and anyone else I can think of to show it to. Changes to each pre-release version will be marked as follows:
Sample version control:
book_0.1.0.1.txt
book_0.1.0.2.txt
book_0.2.txt
book_o.2.1.txt
etc.
I think the naming convention should help me as I make revisions. I’ll alter this as necessary. Now that I have a timeline, my next step is to clearly outline a strategy for working on my projects every day. Look for that in a future post.