Guillaume Munch wrote: > Here's what I suggest. Let's do, on a trial basis for the duration of > 2.3dev, a branch that mirrors master but inserts patches to disable the > input and output of new file-format features (as well as layout changes, > etc.) after each file-format change. We would see if the idea works out. > > I was going to do something like this anyway for myself, so I propose to > take care of it until it gains some momentum. At first we could just > make nightlies out of it for Ubuntu. > > One roadblock that I am expecting is that the author of the original > file format change knows better than me how to block it, but in case of > trouble I can ask for advice. I plan to include the patches responsible > for file format changes and patch them afterwards, because otherwise I > expect the code to diverge too much. If at some point it no longer works > then I will stop. > > I will call the branch ?unstable?. > > Agreement? Suggestions?
So what is the goal here. Jut to get aditional testing from interested parties or to make release from this branch at the end? Pavel
