On Dec 22, 2010, at 9:17 AM, pbreit wrote: > I do think at some point the concept of "stable" and "new" will be useful for > newer users. "stable" might be a loaded word so maybe just "recommended" or > something. One challenge will be how to process bug fixes on "stable". A > start may be the ability to specify a branch in admin. And new users could be > encouraged to use the previous branch (ie, 1.90.6 vs 1.91.3).
This would be a better solution if we actually had stable branches, with back-ported bug fixes. As it is, bug fixes are inseparable from new features, unless individual users are prepared to do their own patching. Which happens, of course, as we saw today with dcrodjer's GAE folder-creation problem, but isn't that useful for most users. Formal support for stable branches would be a good indication of web2py's growing maturity, but somebody's got to commit the time. (This kind of discussion also tends to go off in the regression-test direction....)
