Hi, > > There are a number of things going on within trunk, especially in > > relation to JSR 283, but for 1.5 these new features only need to > > stable enough that they don't break things if people are *not* using > > them. > > This kind of worries me ! I would rather like to have major code changes > be done in a separate branch and be merged back into trunk when done. > Otherwise, we get a dependency on the state of that respective > development, which is not helpfull (at best) or preventing releases (at > worst).
I wouldn't branch, or branch as late as possible. If we have enough test cases (I know...) even major changes shouldn't be a problem. Branching (and specially merging) is more work. Regards, Thomas