Re: SVN and issues with branching / consider how we use SVN going forward

[Alex Harui]

On 8/8/12 4:15 PM, "Dave Fisher" <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:


> 
> The community should be perfectly capable of deciding when trunk should be
> made stable for an upcoming release and stop making ill considered changes.
> 
I would love for that to be true, but historically it hasn't.  We've taken
several community patches that seemed good when reviewed but then caused
problems at crunch time.  I believe that will be solved with better test
development over time, but I don't think we're there now.

> 
> Tag releases and turn those into branches if you need to have something ready
> to release a dot version on.
Have you seen any good discussions on why some other projects have
apparently chosen to keep trunk "ready-to-ship"?

-- 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui