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[Protux-devel] Regarding Release Coordination
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Remon Sijrier |
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[Protux-devel] Regarding Release Coordination |
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Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:30:22 +0100 |
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Hi all,
I had some little discussion about this with Reinhard and unfortunately this
conversation didn't go via protux-devel and I deleted those mails per
accident. So I have to do it with my memory ;-)
Most important point was this:
"Do not release protux until everything is finished/tested/updated etc.."
I understand this puts a high limit on development when nearing to a release,
but it has been a month ago since 0.20.0 is out, and the website and docs are
still _very_ out of date....
Of course, protux is meant to in development mode til 0.50.0, but if you rely
to much on this, it doesn't make sense to release "major" releases at all
So I suggest to do it different in the future:
Split CVS into "stable" and "head" This must be somehow possible. When nearing
the next major release, fork CVS into "stable" and "HEAD", freeze the
"stable" branch and continue development on "head". Only bugfixes will be
excepted for the "stable" branch. (which makes it for me much easier to add
bugfixes to a release. It's very hard for me to do it now. Also for other
people to download the bugfixes to test it)
Then go for testing "stable" until there are no more important bugs, and
_after_ the docs and website has been updated, announce the new release.
One of the things which happend just before the 0.20.0 release was that there
were a bunch of features added which introduces new bugs. That's of course
annoying and IMHO should be avoided. With the release structure mentioned
above this will no longer happen, and also prevents the developer to do such
things.
I also prefer to have something like a "release coordinator". Although it may
seem a bit of overstructuring the whole process, it puts of the load from the
developers, and a release only comes when it is time....
Thanks and RFC please.
Greetings,
Remon
- [Protux-devel] help.txt updated (but not finished yet), Remon Sijrier, 2003/12/03
- Re: [Protux-devel] help.txt updated (but not finished yet), Luciano Giordana, 2003/12/03
- [Protux-devel] Regarding Release Coordination,
Remon Sijrier <=
- [Protux-devel] release 0.20.1, Remon Sijrier, 2003/12/03
- Re: [Protux-devel] Regarding Release Coordination, Luciano Giordana, 2003/12/03
- Re: [Protux-devel] Regarding Release Coordination, Remon Sijrier, 2003/12/03
- Re: [Protux-devel] Regarding Release Coordination, Luciano Giordana, 2003/12/03
- Re: [Protux-devel] Regarding Release Coordination, rsff, 2003/12/04
- Re: [Protux-devel] Regarding Release Coordination, Remon Sijrier, 2003/12/04