On Aug 17, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:30:26PM -0700, Chris Anderson wrote:
btw I'd be +1 on putting the windows stuff in 0.10.x, we won't know
until we try it how well it works. We can say Windows support is
alpha.
I'm quite prepared for someone to make a really good argument that
convinces me
otherwise, but for now, I don't think this is how our releases
should work. A
release is not our way of saying to the wider community "here's all
the new
untested shit for you to break your system with" no matter how many
alpha, beta,
or similar Greek letters we shove in the NEWS file, which, and lets
face it, no
one bothers to read anyway. Subversion HEAD is the proper place to
let things
simmer and get fixed as bug reports come in. A release is our way of
packaging
up all the reasonably mature stuff and saying "here's some probably
stable
features for you to start using."
Then lets do the branch so we can start letting it simmer. Otherwise,
the only way we can do a release is to have no new features checked
into trunk for X weeks or months until we are sure everything else
stable, which is unworkable.
-Damien
Best,
--
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
