On Monday 17 July 2006 20:27, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On the face of it, it seems to me that branching a new major > release at the 1st beta would be one way of managing this. The > trunk is not frozen for an extended period, and any "features" and > bug fixes could probably be backported from the trunk on clearance > from the RE with no more pain than is currently endured. > > One down side would be the possibility of a loss in emphasis in > finishing the job on the release to be. I'm sure there are > others...
The major one is the doubling of the workload for bugfixes. SVN is better than CVS, but it's still not great when it comes to backporting fixes between branches. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
