Hi,

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:09:58PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:57:34 -0200 Ulisses Furquim <[email protected]> 
> said:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Leandro Dorileo <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Cedric,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:46:56AM +0900, Cedric BAIL wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Enlightenment SVN
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > Log:
> > >> > Emotion: introce emotion_object_video_subtitle_file_set() call
> > >> >
> > >> >   For setting an arbitrary subtitle file, this patch introduces the
> > >> >   emotion_object_video_subtitle_file_set() and its counterpart
> > >> >   emotion_object_video_subtitle_file_get().
> > >> >
> > >> >   The tag @sice were added as 1.7.2 since we're preparing a backport to
> > >> >   stable tree.
> > >>
> > >> May I ask why ? Stable tree should only be for bug fixes not new feature.
> > >
> > >
> > > It's a minimal addition and a feature users may want, porting it to stable
> > > tree result on user not waiting 1.8.0 release.
> > 
> > Well, while I understand I don't think that we should add this to
> > stable, really.
> 
> agreed. our policy for stable is "no additions".... UNLESS an addition is
> absolutely needed to "fix a bug".
> 
> i know it sounds harsh - but this is there because efl exports defines for
> manor and minor version but NOT micro version. this allows apps to #if out 
> code
> based on major and minor version - but an addition during micro they can't 
> deal
> with.
> 
> also this is there to minimize possible "surprises" for micro releases.
> these releases SHOULD only be fixing bugs (important ones like crashes or
> misbehaviour or performance bottleneck issues that are simple and easy to 
> fix).
> 
> if the reason to add an api is "because people are impatient" then that's not 
> a
> reason. we have been very good about efl releases over the past 2 years or so.
> we've done 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.7 - that makes about every 6 months. 1.8 will
> probably happen march-ish (maybe april). they can wait.

Ok, I've committed - early today - the backport to emotion-1.7 branch, I have 
no problem on
reverting it by tomorow before the 1.7.5 release.

Regards...

-- 
Leandro Dorileo
ProFUSION embedded systems
http://profusion.mobi

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