On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:56:53AM -0400, buginator wrote: > On 9/13/10, Christian Ohm wrote: >> So how long would this bugfix 2.3 live? Until 2.5 is done, and then >> 2.4 is fixes only? By what criteria will the jump to 2.5 happen? > > I am not really sure what the new criteria will be required for a > major version bump. > Is it netcode ? Gfx ? Lobby code ? Other ? Dunno.
Might I suggest a blasphemous approach? Only *officially* maintaining a single 2.X branch at a time, i.e. as soon as 2.4 is released support for 2.3 is dropped. I explicitly emphasised "officially" there to allow for the case that we have a very simple bugfix which someone is willing to backport. >> How about doing 2.3.5.x releases for bugfixes only instead? So for >> example we (finally) branch 2.3.5 now (and immediately push >> CorvusCorax's projectile fixes in 2.3 for 2.3.6), tag (hopefully no >> more) RCs from it, the release, and the 2.3.5.x fixes. > > I can live with this. I don't think we have enough manpower to maintain two release branches. >> (Well, and there's the question of how well the bugfix only thing >> will work out, I remember both the 2.2 and 2.3 jumps, and though both >> times there was some interest in keeping the old line alive in >> parallel for a while, in the end only the new version was released.) > > This is true as well, and since we always lack the manpower to do the > upkeep that is required, it is possible the same thing will happen > with the purposed 2.3.5.x branch. > > We are going to end up with 3 testing versions, one for trunk (new > features + bug fixes), one for 2.X (new features + bug fixes), and one > for 2.3.5.x (bug fixes). > > It might not always be possible to just do testing in 2.X, since the > new feature might skew the results. Another radical suggestion: reducing 2.X branches to feature-frozen branches, i.e. the only time to add new features would be when creating a new 2.X branch. -- Giel -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook
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