With Lazarus I'm faced with a dilemma. I want to migrate to Lazarus
Delphi/Kylix applications.
For that I need a stable version to work with, even if I need many
workarounds to solve problems still open.
On the other hand I want to test the latest version, to follow the
development and, within the limits of my time and my capabilities give
as much contribution as possible.
The svn version many times fixes bugs not detected at the time of an
"official" release". But using the latest svn version for production is
rather unwise: it's work in progress, so one day the image dialog
freezes the IDE, one day the glyph on the speedbuttons disappear, one
day fpgui doesn't compile, one day qt has wrong dependencies, and so on.
Reading this list, it seems to me that many others face exactly the same
problem.
It would be nice if Lazarus could provide a "stable" branch, which
starts with each "official" release, and it is only maintained by
backporting bug fixes and/or "safe" small enhancements, leaving out all
the developments for next release.
I understand that this requires extra work, and developers are already
quite busy doing their excellent job, therefore someone else should take
care of maintaining such branch, leaving to the developers only the task
of approving what should or shouldn't be done: it's their work so they
must have the last word, of course.
If the idea doesn't seem so stupid, and if nobody else more
knowledgeable wants to undertake this task, I would gladly volunteer for
it. While I'm unable to guarantee an effective contribution to the
development for long periods of time, given my workload, I'm sure I can
squeeze the time required for this job, if nobody else pops up.
What do you guys think about it?
Giuliano
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