+1 for creating the branch at the last minute.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Deepal jayasinghe <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree with Glen. We should only cut the new branch when we are > absolutely sure about the release date. > > Deepal > > Hmm. I guess I'm not entirely convinced that we should cut the branch > yet. Our general release guidelines [1] are to hold off branching until > we're just about ready to release, to avoid unnecessary merging. > > > > Why not just keep working on the trunk for now, at least until we resolve > some of the issues you point out? > > > > --Glen > > > > [1] http://ws.apache.org/axis2/release-process.html > > > > "Andreas Veithen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> All, > >> > >> I'm going to create a branch for the 1.6 release (with the current > >> HEAD of the trunk as the baseline). The first goal will be to > >> determine if we need any releases from upstream projects. I'm aware > >> that there are still ongoing discussions about what should and what > >> should not go into the 1.6 release. This is not an issue because we > >> can always change the baseline, i.e. remove changes from the 1.6 > >> branch or merge additional changes from the trunk. > >> > >> In order to keep the branch manageable, I would like to propose the > >> following guidelines (which proved effective for the 1.5.2 release): > >> * Changes should not be done directly to the 1.6 branch. Instead, they > >> should always be done to the trunk first and then merged to the branch > >> if necessary. Of course, exceptions are made for release specific > >> changes, e.g. changes required to make the branch compatible with > >> releases from upstream projects. > >> * Merges should only be done using a recent version of the svn command > >> line client, or another client that updates the svn:mergeinfo > >> properties. This is important to keep track of the changes that have > >> been merged to the branch. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Andreas > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Thanks, Samisa... Samisa Abeysinghe VP Engineering WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com http://wso2.org
