Re: Subversion 1.5

On 3/9/07, Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> > Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> >> What are other's thoughts about shipping 1.5 soon?
> >
> > One other thought: what about pinging users@ and getting a feel for what
> > some of the users want? I know that may be asking for trouble, but it
> > may give us a better idea about whether or not there is enough stuff in
> > trunk right now for people to justify an upgrade.
>
> After getting a few positive responses on irc, I've drafted the
> following mail for users@. I'm sending it here, just to make sure that
> I'm not over/under promising anything.
>
> -Hyrum
>
> ======================
>
> To all interested users: we need your help!
>
> As many of you know, significant development effort is going into
> implementing merge tracking as a part of Subversion. This work is going
> well, but there is a concern among some of the developers that it may
> delay the Subversion 1.5 release for quite some time.

I would reword this paragraph as follows:

As many of you know, significant development effort is going into
implementing merge tracking as a part of Subversion. This work is going
well, but there is a concern among some of the developers that it has been
too long since our last release and that we should not delay the Subversion
1.5 release while we wrap up this feature.

> Our question to you is whether or not you, as users of Subversion, would
> like Subversion 1.5 now with the above features, or 1.5 in 6 months with
> these features plus merge tracking?

I might add something here that says if we do release 1.5 now, we would hope
to have a 1.6 release with merge tracking by 4Q2007. People are inevitably
going to want to know when they would get merge tracking in this scenario.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/