On 1 Jan 2009, at 16:40, Tim Moore wrote: > I may have been confused about what James proposed to commit. My > understanding > is that Yon's patch mostly makes the other one obsolete, but that > there also > seems to be some instability in it. In any case, a 1.9.1 should have > a minimum > of bug fixes. In my opinion CVS HEAD already has too much checked in > since 1.9 > for a bug fix release, but unless something drastic happens I don't > see anyone > cutting a branch just for a release.
My understanding, from Martin, myself and Vivian, is that neither Benoit's patch, or Yon's introduce any known problems at all, and both have had pretty extensive testing at this point. This is a situation when having a release branch for 1.9.x would make sense, but I understand that nobody really wants to get into merging and branch maintenance while we're still in CVS land (myself very much included!) My feeling is we should strive to keep trunk open for commits, since as Martin noted, there is a chilling effect is patches go un-applied for months at a time. Maybe in this instance we really do need to bite the bullet and make a 1.9 branch, from the tag, and apply just Tim's fixed to that branch (plus any others). It's Fred and Tat who incur the most additional work from that approach, I guess (having to tweak scripts to pull the correct branch). And then we should seriously consider moving to git ASAP. Not just talking about it, but actually do it, at least for the source. Happy new year, may it bring less bugs, more releases and better flying for all :) James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
