Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Marshall Schor<m...@schor.com> wrote: >> See this wiki page for info on the release plan: >> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/UIMA/ReleasePlan2.3.0 > > I was browsing the release plan and noted the following: > > After freeze, release candidates will be tagged from trunk. > Fixes only in trunk, no fixes in tag. Between freeze and release, > trunk is not used for development (we're "frozen"), but development > can continue on branches, if needed. > > That's fine if you've already been following such a code freeze model > and are happy with it. > > A more typical model I see is where a release branch is created from > the trunk when the code freeze begins. This way development in trunk > can continue normally while the release branch is being frozen and > only receives important bug fixes and release management tweaks. Any > release candidates would be tagged from the release branch instead of > the trunk. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting
So far, we've always followed that model. I still prefer it, not least because it forces you to concentrate on the upcoming release. --Thilo
