Released Deki Wiki 1.8.3 RC2 yesterday (I wrote the release notes and the blog entry) - yay.

This release turned out to be much heftier than we imagined - although we marked it as an incremental release, it's actually a major release. That means that we had a 3 month development cycle between major releases (September 21st - December 18th). This, of course, doesn't include the time from our black hole of engineering resources.

It seems that given the flexibility we need at MindTouch to handle all our side projects, the most realistic schedule is to do service pack releases once a month (1.8.3a, 1.8.3b) and then do a release every two or three months.

I still got a ton of work in nailing down QA issues (we had some regressions in this release that are disheartening) because the release checklist is somewhat dated - one of these days, I need to update the documentation.