On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 19:12 +0530, Thilina Gunarathne wrote:
> Hi all,
> We have been preparing for the Axis2 1.1 release for some time... But
> the release seems to take some more time..  We might need to do a
> series of RC's before going to the final release.
> 
> Because of this I'm planning to create a branch for the axis2 1.1, so
> that  developers who are developing new features towards future
> releases will be able to continue their work without much trouble.

+1 for cutting the branch ASAP .. today?

> Before going ahead with the branching I would like if we can decide a
> merging policy before hand.
> 
> Following are the two options that comes to my mind...
>           1. Developers take the responsibility of merging their
> relevant fixes to the 1.1 branch back to the trunk as an when the
> things are committed to the trunk()..  But this will slow down the
> development...  But I think we should do this at least for the fixes
> which are not going to have effect on the other parts..
> 
>          2. Let the two branches develop independently.. Merge the two
> after the 1.1 release... IMO this will be a real pain...

While I agree (1) would be great, realistically we'll end up with a
mixture. We're clearly going to have to spend some time after the
release to merge all the changes to the HEAD but I see no way out of it;
we cannot keep this virtual code freeze for other people! IIRC there
were a few volunteers to help with the merge too ;-).

Sanjiva.



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