Am Freitag, den 21.05.2010, 23:52 +0200 schrieb strk: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 02:31:12PM -0500, Rob Savoye wrote: > > > The problem with the "stable branch" concept is that stable in this > > case means stagnant, with no real development of major new features. > > ... and the problem with "experimental branch" is that it breaks easily > has more bugs and may blow up your computer :) > > Seriously, that's the whole point of having different branches. > Let's use this capability... >
The stable branch will not be stagnant and have no new features. It is intended to be a development branch that has no commits that break the testsuite, so develops in a stable, regression-free way. The problem with the current branch is that Rob makes commits of such low quality and in ignorance of failing tests that after three weeks of work Gnash regularly crashes, while other parts are 'adapted' to fix crashes without any idea of what they're for. Other developers and I have always tried to point out these errors in great detail (no "vague accusations" here, unless you mean backtraces, code analysis, valgrind reports and design issues!) and I fix some of them myself, but it's precisely the lack of developer time that now makes this a problem. I'd like to spend my limited time adding new features, not trying to contain problems caused by other code and reviewing code that's evidently been written by guesscoding. The current code Rob is working on, for instance, would be useful if it worked. Maybe it does even work now when it doesn't crash. If it were only committed after it's been reviewed, rewritten, and the testsuite passes there would be no problem. But intermediate commits that break things have never been acceptable, and *no other developer* has done this as consistently over many years. There seems to be no prospect of getting the maintainer to understand this, as the same problems have arisen again and again, and as I've been removed from the project on Savannah, it seems there is no choice anyway but to move development of Gnash somewhere else. bwy -- Free Flash, use Gnash http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ Benjamin Wolsey, Software Developer - http://benjaminwolsey.de C++ and Open-Source Flash blog - http://www.benjaminwolsey.de/bwysblog xmpp:b...@xabber.de http://identi.ca/bwy
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