Hi All, There has been a number of build and bug fixes to the OSG since 2.4 that would be nice to fixed as part a 2.4.x stable family. While desirable there are practical issues to overcome to make a stable series possible, which is why I'd like to strike up this thread to see what we as community can do to facilitate it.
Now if I was employed fulltime by some fairy godmother then I'd probably be able to mange both maintenance of stable versions and developer versions, but reality is that I I like everyone else has to earn a living by doing paid work. I juggle my unpaid open source work with paid work on average around 50/50, mainly balancing by the books by putting lots of hours in, as such I can barely cover all the work that I already have on my plate. Given this I'm not in the position to put the extra work required in putting together minor point stable releases, so... I need help on this if we wish these extra stable releases to happen. Now Paul Martz and Bob Kuehne have provide paid for professional support contract for long term support of stable versions, and over most of the past year have had write access to the svn repositories tags so that if they need they can patch 1.2 etc as required as part of their support. Potentially users could commission Paul and Bob to undertake this for 2.0.x, 2.2.x and 2.4.x stable series via the support contracts, or perhaps just contract them directly ;-) Being an open source community this isn't the only solution that we could come up with... Paul, Bob and myself aren't the only ones with the skills and experience to manage releases. For instance one solution could be to have nominated maintainers for each stable branch, and they take on the duty of merging bug/build fixes either directly or by sourcing them from trunk, and then cajolling the community into testing and making sure that any new minor point release is up to the standard required for a stable release. Thoughts? Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
