On 1/1/07, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/1/07, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/1/07, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The SHALE_1_0_X branch [1] has been created. Over the next day, it > > will be used to prepare the proposed v1.0.4 artifacts and svn tag. > > > > My preference would be to have no commits to the branch when releases > > are being prepared and voted on (relevant commits to trunk that need > > to be backported can wait a day or two, unless its a showstopper for > > the release). I will ping this thread when this is done for v1.0.4, > > and the branch is open for general commits. > > > Does this also imply that the trunk is now open for new features? I want to > spend a bit of time between plays :-) on things like SHALE-262, and it'd be > easier to just work on the trunk now, rather than branching shale-test and > then merging later. > <snip/> Indeed, now that we have multiple lines of development, development need not stop just because a release is imminent. The v104 tag will come from the 10x branch, so the trunk is no longer relevant for the release ;-) More generally, I propose we have the following procedure for future releases: (1) At the appropriate time, the RM declares a code freeze on the relevant branch (2) Development continues in all other branches, and developers keep notes of any changes that need to be ported to the "frozen" branch (3) When freeze is over, developers commit pending changes Showstoppers that require a fix to the frozen branch restart the process at (1).
Sounds like a good general policy, although I suspect there generally will *not* be pending changes that we did not already discuss and decide on -- it will probably amount to a few patches that were deemed not critical to getting a maintenance release out the door. But time will tell :-). In the mean time, I'll go ahead and update the trunk version numbers to 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT, per our previous discussions. I've also added a JIRA version for this, so we can start tagging issues for new development as they get dealt with there. -Rahul Craig
(And no, I'm *not* going to propose that we add a new feature to 1.0.4 at > the last minute :-). > > Craig > > > -Rahul > > > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shale/framework/branches/SHALE_1_0_X/ > > > >