On 23/10/2008, at 6:45 PM, Andrey Razumovsky wrote:
Also I foresee I will soon work with ROP much more, and I'd like
some other
features on ROP to be done, like maybe lifecycle callback-like
functionality. So I'd rather we limit "no more API changes" later than
sooner.
Of course, 'no more API changes' doesn't mean forever :-) Just that
if we have a goal to aim for, then if you miss that goal, it just
means that the next set of API changes go into 3.1 (or 4.0).
So we can:
1. Decide on a feature set which will go into 3.0 then move all other
features in Jira to 'future'. If new features come in they go to
'future' and don't get added to the infinitely increasing list that is
3.0. OR
2. Decide on a date by which all new features are to be committed.
Then after that comes just bug fixing. This date based approach is
being used by a number of larger projects (such as FreeBSD).
Also, we should decide as a matter of principle, can the API change
between 3.0 and 3.1? Or wait until 4.0? Personally I think that API
changes should be allowed between 3.0 and 3.1 otherwise we split
development into too many branches.
Ari Maniatis
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