On Jul 5, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Brice Figureau wrote: > > On 5/07/09 4:39, James Turnbull wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Luke Kanies wrote: >>>> Yes, it was my understanding that #2033 was a feature for 0.26 (I >>>> don't >>>> feel it would be right to add new feature while we're in beta). >>>> It just happened that I was cut off from the Internet a couple of >>>> weeks >>>> ago, so that was the perfect time to work on a bigger thing not >>>> involving redmine :-) >>> Makes sense. >>> >>> I may end up getting more features in 0.25, also, if clients >>> change my >>> priorities, which looks like it's possible. >>> >> >> At some point we need to call "enough". We're up to b2. I don't >> want to end up like Dovecot with b15. I think one (or at the most >> two more) betas would be a reasonable limit. > > Yes, I completely agree. We should focus on getting to 0 high/ > important > bugs. What we can do if we absolutely want to add new features or only > track them for later is to create a 0.26 branch now and commit those > there. Or do the reverse and branch 0.25 now and keep 0.26 for the > development. Choose your poison of course.
First, I don't think we should have any more betas. We should focus on getting tickets closed and push for an rc1, rather than more betas, if at all possible. As to later releases, I really think we need to switch to something like the kernel uses, where the 'next' branch is recreated periodically from the code that is accepted for release. This puts a higher burden on James as the release maintainer (although not a ton, since it could pretty easily be turned into a straightforward rake task), but it makes it trivial to add and remove code chunks from the branch. E.g., the daemontools code, which had broken tests for months, would have been added initially, but then once the tests were found to be broken, it would have been removed from the list of code to merge and the branch would have been recreated. Boom, code gone, and no extra commits or anything. -- It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
