On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Derek Gaston wrote:
> Stating that "they can download nightlies" or "we have time until > 0.9.0" doesn't do justice to the reality that many people are using > the library right out of the repo. "They can download nightlies" isn't an attempt to make things harder for users, it's an attempt to assist users, motivated partly by your insistance that we support users without automake, and expanding that to add support for users without subversion (or git or whatever else we switch to) too. "We have time until 0.9.0" is the attitude we've *always* had; other than constantly branching the code, making specific "release" versions is the only way to avoid either paralyzing development (what would happen if every suggested change had to be well-planned enough to practically guarantee indefinite future backwards compatibility and support) or regularly yanking the rug out from under our users (what would happen if every implemented change was subject to reversion if and when a better alternative was found). The comments about constant integration are well-received, though. We've always had an "anyone can commit to trunk" sort of philosophy, but "anyone can commit to branches/testing; revisions which pass tests get synched to trunk" would be more responsible. --- Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
