In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:01:05 -0500, Bjorn 
Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

bjorn> Honestly, I think 3.7 should just be quitely dropped and we
bjorn> should restart from 3.6, apply all the bugfix patches and
bjorn> possibly some of well-tested and known-to-be-OK improvements
bjorn> and call this release 3.8.
bjorn> 
bjorn> Then, with the new 3.8 as baseline, people can re-submit
bjorn> whatever patches didn't make it into 3.8.

That feels like a positive way for me.  At least, that means I can
actually make heads and tails of what things solve what, and get out
of my current stagnation with this project.  It's actually quite
simple for me to do, as the 3.6 to whatever there was before we
started on 3.7 was just one commit, and is therefore easy to revert.

While we're into structural changes, how would you guys feel about a
future change of SCM.  I'm getting a little sick and tired of the non
atomic nature och CVS, along with the file-oriented way instead of the
changeset-oriented, along with the non-existent history control (quite
important when merging lines of development).  BTW, DON'T PANIC!  I'm
not about to make that change now, just throwing it into the pile of
ideas.  Personally, I'd like to use monotone
(http://www.venge.net/monotone/), but since it's currently undergoing
quite a lot of change, I'd wait until the summer before doing an
actual change...

Right now, I'm a bit busy seeing my son, whom I haven't seen for two
and a half months (I'm divorced, I live in Sweden, he lives in Boston,
you do the math :-)), so I'm not going to promise much movement quite
yet.

Cheers,
Richard

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