Thanks for the email link Greg. Yeah, the submitted changes in question from project A were filter updates, and we do specifically state in that email that filter updates are allowed in a stable branch. It was kindof an odd situation. The updates merely added css classes to a few of the html tags which are outputted from the filters, none of the projects involved thought adding css classes would break anyone.

One of the things in head currently which isn't mentioned in that email is binding improvements and also your additional cmake make system. I'm not sure how I feel about binding improvements being included in a stable branch, but I don't see an issue including an additional make system. Any thoughts?

Troy

On 9/14/2010 6:49 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Troy A. Griffitts
<scr...@crosswire.org>  wrote:
  Understood going forward.

There were a few factors which made this a slightly non-standard situation.
  First, this wasn't exactly a bug fix.  It was a workaround for a bug in a
version of libcurl.  I was hoping libcurl would be patched.  And no, I
personally didn't report the issue to the curl team, which I should have.
  Secondly, one of our frontend projects submitted a small update which
changed something another of our frontends depended on.  The second project
had updated their code to still work with the new change, but they hadn't
released yet.  If they had released then everyone would be happy with us
releasing SVN as is.  As it stands right now 1 of the 2 projects will need
to patch SVN for their frontend to work.  So delaying was a hopeful but
unfruitful exercise.  It was a choice we made to with the best information
we had at the time.
Not knowing the nature of the changes, etc, I don't mean to provide
this as a comment on that, but I'd just like to bring back up this
email:

http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/2009-June/032108.html

and see if that's still the plan?  If you're actually changing how
things are working inside (in the sense of enhancing for new modules
and content like the NASB and not just for fixing bugs), then maybe it
is time to branch and allow for bug fixing/feature branches to develop
separately until 1.7 is made?

--Greg

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