Re: merge-tracking and svn 1.5

On 12/14/06, Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk> wrote:
> You need to be careful when you do this. With my FreeBSD hat on, something
> similar was tried with FreeBSD 5.0, which contained many new features, and
> quite disruptive changes to lots of the code. 5.0 was clearly labeled as a
> 'new technology' and 'developer preview' release (and was a .0 release to
> boot), with many caveats in the documentation about its use in production
> environments.
>
> By and large it seems much of our userbase ignored these statements,
> installed 5.0, and then felt betrayed when it didn't meet their
> expectations. We still see fall out from this on some of our mailing lists,
> and it seems as though it led some of our userbase to migrate to a different OS.

This is a pretty legitimate fear. Perhaps we should call it a
"broken" release instead of an "alpha" or something along those lines.

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser_at_mit.edu | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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