OK, So the decision is to ship 2.0.4 for the time being, since 2.1.x has a significant performance issue.
If there any objections or further issues regarding this case, please send and email before the deadline 07/22/2008. Or I'll close the case as approved. --Irene On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 11:36 +0800, C Wang wrote: > Danek: > I tested the 2.1.x release and found the new feature "pan view" has some > significant performance issue, I don't think we can ship the product > without fix this issue, I'll try to contact the maintainer to see if we > can work together to fix the problem. For the time being, we will stay > with 2.0.X release. > > Thanks, > Chris > > Danek Duvall ??????: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:39:19PM +0800, C Wang wrote: > > > > > >> Our strategy is to deliver community stable version to Opensolaris, that's > >> why we plan to ship 2.0.4 version. However, we will merge to 2.1.x version > >> when it announced to become stable version. > >> > > > > That would make some sense if there were any expectation that 2.1.x would > > ever be released. But the project has been inert for the past year and a > > half. Meanwhile, the latest "development" release works perfectly well, > > and is better than the "stable" release. There are a lot of open source > > projects where the development release is usually the better choice -- > > whether neither branch has been updated in a long time (like gqview), or > > whether the community simply waits a very long time between "stable" > > releases, despite the fact that the "development" release is production > > quality, and often much better than the older branch (like zsh, fvwm). > > > > It's your choice, but I think you'll end up with fewer happy customers if > > you choose the older version, and the new one won't be any more of a > > maintenance burden, since it's not changing at all, either. > > > > Danek > > >
