+1 no disagreement here! anyone who wants to get crazy can do so in a new branch for now? On Apr 1, 2014 9:42 PM, "Justin Clark-Casey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks. For the past 3 years, we've had a significant OpenSimulator > release at about 4 to 8 month intervals. > > As the last major release (0.7.6) was in September 2013, we are due for > another, and this seems like a reasonable point. From my perspective, > releases drive a very significant level of OpenSimulator adoption. It's > also the case that I may have a limited window of time to act as release > manager, after which things may get very busy for me for an extended period. > > There was some disagreement over how the last release was handled, > particularly over the period when I asked that developers take care to > leave master stable. However, it's quite hard for me to see how this could > be done in another way without significantly more manpower. Even when the > release is branched, if the release branch and master diverge significantly > (or master is broken) then a lot of the testing done by users is lost - > very few people actually pick up and test release candidates. > > So unless there is disagreement, I'm going to ask that people take care to > keep master stable until the end of April or release, whichever occurs > first. This certainly does not mean a halt to development on master, it's > just a request that people take a common sense approach to holding off from > putting in destabilising or very complicated changes for a while, unless > these are to fix significant bugs or regressions. > > I'm very happy to hear alternatives, though I would also need people to > help if they involve more work. In any case, Robert has very kindly > volunteered to look at some of the current regressions but more help is > always very welcome. > > The current regressions or very major bugs have a 0.8 target in Mantis. > As with every release so far, only major regressions are guaranteed to > receive some sort of attention, where the answer may still be WONTFIX for > this release. > > Regards, > > -- > Justin Clark-Casey (justincc) > OSVW Consulting > http://justincc.org > http://twitter.com/justincc > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >
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