Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/08/2003 10:48:30 PM:

> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 08:14, Rafal Krzewski wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > After a discussion on IRC with Jason this afternoon I've volunteered 
to 
> > > roll back CVS Head so it has the pre-refactor code + the changes 
since, 
> > > until Jason can spend some more time on getting the refactor working 
with 
> > > all the plugins.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have a problem with rolling back the refactor?
> > 
> > This is really bad news. Porting changes back and forth between the
> > branches is a always a waste of effort. 
> 
> Yup. I didn't want to check in my stuff until I had worked on it further
> but a couple folks wanted to see if ended up not understanding it and it
> has indeed been a wasted effort.
Not from my angle.

> > The time needed to do that
> > could be spent better on fixing the problems in HEAD.
> 
> Yes, but I'm tired of fighting the "I want it now!" mentality. I will
> quietly get everything working and test it before I check things in
> again.
I'd be happy if we could do incremental changes too.

> > If there is pressure however to have beta 11 released without the
> > memory leak plugged up, a MAVEN_BETA_11 branch could be sprouted
> > at the point of pre refactoring tag, and as many bug fixes as possible
> > would be ported there.
> 
> You have much experience with branches and this sort of thing and we
> could probably learn from your experiences. Do you want to head this up
> seeing as you wrote the branches documentation that we have.
Sounds good 2 me!!!

dIon

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