Hi all, I need to raise my concerns about the situation we have (again) on the current trunk.
[Speaking purely as PMC member] We raised the issue of branching when we will break the branch. The last time this came up by dropping the extension of files. I thought we agreed that if we break the trunk (like uuid is doing right now) we will create a branch and merging back when it is stable and they are clear instructions about updating homegrown modules to the new API. However we just broke the trunk again and now the quota of side effect questions are raising again. This cost a lot of time for this community. We cannot afford this ATM! The discussion about branching gave the impression that we like to be able to break trunk every now and then, but under the condition of regular releases. May I remind that number 1 faq is still "when will be 1.4 released". Either we release before breaking trunk again or we *have to* branch *before* breaking the trunk. ...or we will never ever release 1.4 at all because all the extra work is loosing too much community. See the revolution branch as a side effect of this situation. [Speaking purely as dev] I cannot spend more hours to update my customers modules code against the current HEAD. We far too often are breaking the current API that custom code is not working anymore. As professional lenya dev with commit access I am writing custom lenya related code and meanwhile enhancing the lenya code. When I write a module it is normally against the current trunk back then. The customer reviews it and has some changes. I now have the decission between keep on using the original revision or updating the module to use current HEAD. If I choose old revision then I cannot incorporate any enhancements that HEAD brought or I can do while working on the module. If I choose HEAD in the current situation, like I did, I am screwed. Leaving me with a lot of more days to review all the modules I wrote. I cannot do that anymore I have no time for it. I need a release to base my custom modules on. We need a release now. salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler COO Spain Wyona Inc. - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya http://www.wyona.com http://lenya.apache.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
