Chinthaka +1 for your comment.  :)

Eran Chinthaka wrote:

>Whilst agreeing with Dims, here are few more points.
>
>We always can branch after a release, as we *always* create a tag, just
>before the release. But so far, I've never seen we releasing a quick fix
>after a release, using branches, in Apache WS projects. So I don't think
>we have a problem in that.
>
>Creating branches before the release : The code will be frozen for a
>small number of days. Creating branch will help people to improve the
>code during that time. But what who decides which improvement should go
>only to the branch or to both? The committer or the release manager
>(RM)? I hope its the RM.
>
>Then we are asking him to do more work in addition to that tons of work
>he has while releasing. He has to carefully analyze, *each* commit done
>to the branch. Just be a RM once, you will realize how difficult it is.
>
>We are talking about pausing the development for couple of days vs more
>hazzle to the RM. Why can't we help him for the release by testing the
>artifacts in the mean time :).
>
>BTW, the subject says this is a vote. But the vote has moved away from
>the original proposal. Do we wanna start a new vote or forget this (;) )?
>
>-- Chinthaka
>  
>



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