On 30/04/2009, Owen Winkler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Michael Harris wrote: >> >> So, it looks like we're ignoring >> http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Release_Policy#Minor_Point_Releases >> for 0.6.1 then. > > In what way? I think the items merged at least qualify under the third > criterion, if not the prior ones.
I was away when the 0.6.1 discussion started, and didn't manage to catch up with it. From what I see that was merged, a few of the commits are related to data loss (and a couple that could be argued to be data loss in that deleting data doesn't work), and I don't see any related to security (though I may have missed that, if I did that's fine). I don't believe many of them would be blockers, unless we've changed our criteria in the couple of weeks since we released 0.6. The stable releases are for people who want things stable. Upgrading is a pain. We have an extra responsibility with minor point releases to try our hardest not to introduce new bugs. That means we should keep what's included in a minor point release to an absolute minimum. I know it's nice to get fixes for things out to the community, but imho that's not enough to warrant inclusion in a point release. At least, that's the way I see things. If others see things differently, okay. > If you're referring to merging to the makaanga branch, I think the later > documentation better applies: > http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Release_Policy#Trunk.2C_Tags.2C_and_Makaanga As the policy stands, I disagree. That section is about reaching stability once we merge to makaanga _before_ a release, not about minor point releases. If the policy doesn't work, fine, let's evolve it. If people want to say trivial fixes can be included then let's talk about that. As things stand, I'm not sure why a bunch of these couldn't have waited until 0.7. -- Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog IRC: michaeltwofish #habari --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
