Yeah, the issue about releasing something not really completing a feature is ... well ... feeling bad. Nevertheless I admit that already a lot of changes went into master already, and it is obvious that our users are eager to get all this in an official released version. Additionally it is getting latest with gcc 5.0 pretty mandatory to build it with current trunk version due its new '(n)ftw' feature. So latest March/April we will need to release trunk IMO. But this raises some other questions we need to answer. What happens to the already existing open branches? Do we plan do stop maintenance at some point for them? Who will tend new branch? Latest thing I remember is that JonY agreed to maintain 3.x. So will he agree to do this also for upcoming 4.0?
The idea of light release sounds interesting. But what shall we make a release criteria then? Time, amount of commits, features, gut feeling? Kai 2015-01-03 15:29 GMT+01:00 Jacek Caban <[email protected]>: > On 01/02/15 14:47, Erik van Pienbroek wrote: >> It would definitely help us when mingw-w64 would do more frequent >> releases. > > We had a discussion about that in the past, but there was no follow-up. > The problem that I can see with past releases that I've been involved in > is that there was always a lot of development work just before the > release. How about we do an experiment and do a 'light' stable release > off the master branch, with no time nor feature pressure. Master branch > is pretty stable at this point and contains enough changes to be worth > giving it in hands of users. We could just branch at any point soon and > release a beta. Depending on how feedback goes, we decide on when to do > the final release, but we don't push to have any new development done > for the release nor block development on master branch. This should be > mostly straightforward. > > Jacek > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
