Re: [RFC] 3.1 branching

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:26:14 +1200 (NZST)

> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 22:40 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
>> My vote:
>>
>> 1. Finish any pending major restucturing/reorganisations/reformmatting
>> first. For example if the code is to be restyled before 3.1 is "old and
>> mature" then it must be done before 3.1 is branched. Such changes is a
>> major blocker for branching.
>>
>> 2. Branch so 3.1 can start it's road to stabilization in a sensible
>> manner. It does not really matter if it's 100% feature complete, or if
>> there is some already committed features which isn't quite finished.
>> Small features is no different from bugfixes in terms of maintenance,
>> and if it's found there is committed unfinished stuff already in the
>> tree then it can quite easily be bounced to the next release after
>> branching (but not before). Also if now missing features gets further
>> delayed they simply won't make it in time for the release and will get a
>> new chance in the next release (3.2).
>>
>> 3. flame anyone who commits bugfixes embedded within feature commits.
>> Bugfixes need to be separate for the maintenance process to work. Any
>> bugfixes committed as part of feature commits gets hidden and lost from
>> the maintenane process.
>
> I am OK with the above, especially if Amos prefers this path.
>

+1.

Amos
Received on Fri Sep 26 2008 - 01:26:17 MDT

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