On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Florian Klaempfl <flor...@freepascal.org> wrote: > Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: >> I think Lazarus could benefit from such a workflow too. There seems to be >> more and more experimental feature that go untested because they are >> "experimental". Getting more developers to simply switch to another branch >> at allow testing of new features before they go to Trunk would be very >> beneficial. Beneficial to the Laz developers, end-users and definitely to >> the new feature maintainer - get people to test and comment on a new >> feature before it makes it into Trunk. > > Years of experience with fpc showed that very few people are testing > such branches. Even rcs aren't intensively tested, just look at the > resource trouble with fpc 2.4.0 >
Florian, I for one - which had tried some branches only a few times - think that the main culprits for this is lack of information/advertisement of these/the relevant branches, and, not to copycat Graeme, the slowness of switching branches in svn. Yes, I know the switch command, as I used svn for quite time, coming from years of cvsnt use (and some frustration). Actually I've been using/trying svn regularly its early bdb days, as I had high hopes for it, but I always come back frustrated. I'm not 100% sure it would/can work, but it sounds good in principle... -Flávo -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
