2.0.3?

Vincent Ladeuil v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr
Mon Dec 14 14:19:43 GMT 2009


>>>>> "Gordon" == Gordon Tyler <gordon at doxxx.net> writes:

    Gordon> On 12/14/2009 4:45 AM, Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
    >> In the end, I think it means that the only fixes that should land
    >> on the stable branches should be identified from the start and
    >> land there or be critical enough to be backported. I don't think
    >> we have (yet) encountered such bugs for the 2.0 release series.

    Gordon> What if the developer branches from the 2.0 series, fixes the bug,
    Gordon> tests, unit-tests and the proposes for merge into 2.0?

That's what I call 'fixing in 2.0 from the start': you begin with
a branch that will be cleanly mergeable to the stable branch.

In contrast, starting with bzr.dev, more or less requires to
cherry-pick, and even there, only if no additional dependency is
involved.


    >> We have other means than the stable branches to distribute new
    >> releases (ppas, etc) and that can be used when people are
    >> interested in new features or bug fixes.

    Gordon> As I understand it, ppas are a Ubuntu packaging
    Gordon> thing, right? If that's so, then bear in mind that
    Gordon> leaves out Windows users for getting these features
    Gordon> or bug fixes since they will almost certainly depend
    Gordon> on the binary installers built for releases.

Installers are built for all betas releases, the only releases
that are not easily available to windows and OSX users are those
in the nightly ppa.

If that wasn't the case I would worry far much :)

   Vincent



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