Yes, that would be one alternative. But to emphasise, I'm only asking for a common-sense approach to avoid
destabilising master right now, not a blanket ban on commits or anything like that.
On 02/04/14 02:45, Michael Emory Cerquoni wrote:
+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]
<mailto:[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,
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