On 01/07/2013 08:09 AM, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
It would be nice to have bug fixes separated from new feature
introductions by having major and minor releases and branches for these
releases. Contributors of a release could backport bug fix in the
release they use if that was required by their project using the now old
compiler version.
Of course I realize that this means more overall work, more people,
someone or a set of people in charge of release management, etc...
I also think that you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who does
development like that, proprietary or open source. It's not uncommon to
have bugfix only releases, but having a new features release that
doesn't fix any bugs is, in my experience, unheard of.
Also, I'd be STRONGLY against it, because I have a fix bugs first
mentality, and if you find a bug while implementing a new feature, it
should be fixed.
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