Re: Delay of release....

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Jan 2007, at 10:56, Matt Rice wrote:

> > > so it would be good if we could get
> > > these added now, (even if the code to use them is omitted from  
> > > the  release due to instability or whatever) :D
> > Not to mention the move of NSAffineTransform out of gui and in to   
> > base to match Apple ... which means that whenever we make a new   
> > unstable release of gui we also need to make one of base.
> > Wouldn't it be good to backport bugfixes and make a stable release  
> > of  gui (and back) without all the incompatible changes asap though?
>
> *shrug* pretty much indifferent on this.
> It be nice if this were done proactively as bugfixes were  
> introduced though

I agree with that, but the fact is that we haven't done that in the  
past, so if we are going to start we need a policy decision that  
bugfixes are to be backported from trunk to the stable branch  
immediately, and we need the developers working on svn to buy in to  
the idea and actually do it.   In an ideal world we would get new  
developers (who aren't confident to leap in and do bigger jobs) to do  
the backporting, but if we don't have any such volunteers we would  
need to be prepared to do it ourselves.

The advantage of immediately backporting bugfixes (apart from making  
the process of doing a new bugfix release a whole lot easier because  
you don't have to try to backport a whole lot of changes in one go)  
is that it would make it worthwhile to set  up an automated snapshot  
of the stable branch so that people could easily download something  
with latest bugfixes in it.