Any idea how long till adobe commits the code? On Jan 4, 2012 7:44 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> I’m loving the ideas and energy on this list so far. And so, the subject > question needs to be answered: What should we (the committers in this > project) do first? > > I recall from the summit that a healthy Apache project releases at least > every 4 to 6 months, and one of the things an incubator podling has to do > is cut at least one release so it can show it knows the Apache way of doing > so. So, while we’ve got lots of good ideas out there around refactoring > Flex, lots of those seem like more than a 4 to 6 month project. They > should certainly get underway, but we also need to make sure we make enough > useful, short-term fixes to be worthy of a release so we can practice > making a release. I’m thinking that means we pick off a bunch of bugs to > fix, and maybe take a new component or two or three. > > To do so without getting de-stabilized by the longer term projects, we > should agree on a branch strategy. It sounds like many Apache projects > have multiple branches like: > -Sandbox: Anything that doesn’t fall over immediately can go here > -Unstable: Things that are being polished for release can go here > -Stable: The release candidate goes here. > -Released: The latest release. > > Long term projects would go in Sandbox and shorter term stuff would go in > Unstable and get synched to Sandbox if required. > > Most of you are volunteers trying to scratch out spare time to make > contributions, but some of us have all day to work on this stuff. I am > thinking of splitting time between long-term work and short term work and > use JIRA to guide what short-term work I do. > > So, add your thoughts on branch strategy (especially Apache veterans). > You can discuss your favorite short-term project if you want, but what > really matters is whether you’ll get around to committing it. And of > course, this is all talk until we get cleared to submit the code and get > JIRA up and running. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
