On 6/12/03 09:29 PM Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jens Schumann wrote: > > the good thing about open source is that you are free to apply your > patches and run with it. I have modified my version of Axis and I have > been holding off until Axis1.1 ships before committing those changes.
Well. >From a developer perspective you are right. But there a (hopefully) a number of people who just want to use axis and don't deal with code at all. Open Source doesn't mean an iterative process could not be applied ;). > As a process issue, I am now strongly convinced that the moment we begin > the beta process for 1.2 we must branch, and then instead of holding > back on changes to the mainline, we bugfix the mainline for all bugs, > and move stuff back into the 1.2 release branche on a case-by-case > basis. This reduces a lot of the pressue we get to fix stuff in the > release, as the fixes do go into CVS_HEAD Sounds reasonable.
