dangerous_dom wrote:
Sorry KDF, be patient with me i obviously have not got my brain with me
today, could you clarify that...
7.0 is a stable branch of 6.5 which will not be changing. 6.5 is still
in development as before - correct?
Or is it that 6.5 is considered most stable?
Please could you put this in terms which us simplton non developer
types and understand. I am struggling with the logic of which versions
are going.
There are currently 2 active branches. 6.5 is in late beta, and only
small new features and bug fixes are being done in this branch. It will
very likely ship on or about the september release date of the
Transporter. 7.0 is in early alpha. Major new functionality will be
added to that branch, and on any given day, it might reformat your
harddrive or download scads of free music for you from iTunes.
At some point in the future (probably in 2 or 3 weeks), you can expect
6.5 to get locked down even tighter, with only critical fixes going in,
and a 6.6 branch to get started for small features and bug fixes.
Once 6.5 ships, small feature work will continue in the 6.6 branch, and
a new 6.5.1 branch will be created for critical fixes.
In general, if there are multiple active branches, the smallest version
number will always be the next one that ships, and thus the most stable.
A good rule of thumb is that the more branches currently exist, the more
likely a beta branch is to be stable (because big work isn't going into
it, it's going into one of the further off branches). However, by the
same token, the more branches that exist, the _less_ likely you'll be to
see a fix for any given bug going into the most stable branch --
because, unless it's really critical, it'll get pushed off to one of the
less stable branches.
- Marc
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