On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:53 PM, John Vines <[email protected]> wrote: > I just don't understand the urgency to start adding new features to 1.6. If > there's a standing patch, then we're in great shape for the second we do. > But once we switch the trunk to 1.6, it does flag a lot of transition work > to be done (version numbers, purging deprecated code, etc.)
Changing the version numbers will have to be done at some point by someone. Its a lot of work for sed, but not much human effort. Purging deprecated code is something that needs to be considered before 1.6 is released, not after we branch. > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Keith Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:20 PM, John Vines <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I think we should hold off for a few days, perhaps a week or two, just so >> > we have more time for bug squashing without concerns about merging bug >> > fixes. >> >> I have also wanted to avoid doing this, I did not want to do until >> there was a reason. It has been 3 or 4 weeks since feature freeze. >> While working on the recent patch from Damon I was thinking I would >> like to put this in svn when its ready. But I am not sure if it >> should go in 1.5. Its not a bug fix. I would like to avoid having >> discussions about what to do about every non bug fix. I am thinking >> avoiding these discussions may save us more time than merging. >> >> It should be very easy to automatically merge all changes from 1.5 to >> trunk as long as no one make massive changes to trunk. I can take >> point on doing this until we release 1.5.0. I will make sure all bug >> fixes in 1.5 branch end up in trunk. >> >> What do you think? >> >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Keith Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> I propose we branch 1.5. We are passed the feature freeze for 1.5 and >> >> it would be nice to be able to commit some recent contributions to >> >> trunk. >> >> >> >> If no one objects I will create the branch Tuesday morning. >> >> >> >> Keith >> >> >>
