The recent thread about whether and when to release a 1.5.0-rc6, and
what should be included in it if so, has mixed together two unrelated
topics. The purpose of this mail is to separate those topics, since
one of them is probably more interesting and important than the other.
* Topic 1: "What To Release"
This is the question of whether to release RC5 (which has soaked the
full four weeks), or release everything that's now on the 1.5.x
branch (and if so, whether or not to give that another four full
weeks of soak).
When I say "release RC5", I really mean "release RC5 plus any
trivial fixes and/or changes that don't require voting or
re-soaking". I hope this is obvious, and that the short label "RC5"
isn't taken literally! Still, releasing RC5 would mean that some
changes merged into 1.5.x after RC5 was released wouldn't be part of
1.5.0 -- they'd have to wait for 1.5.1.
This question is already being addressed in a separate thread. I'm
not trying to start a new thread about it here. I'm just trying to
describe the "What To Release" topic so we all agree on what it is.
* Topic 2: "How To Release"
This is a much less interesting, though still necessary, discussion.
It is about how, technically, to achieve whatever result we decide
on in Topic 1. That is, it's mechanisms of release management: do
we make a branch of the 1.5.0-rc5 tag? Subtract changes from 1.5.x
and put them back later? Branch from the tip of 1.5.x and subtract
changes from the new branch? Etc, etc.
There are lots of ways to do it, and I don't care which methodology
we use. In fact, I thought one of the reasons we have a release
manager is precisely so we don't have to have threads on Topic 2 :-).
Basically, whatever Hyrum wants to do is fine with me.
Now, there could be things to discuss here. Some methods of
managing the release branch might affect all of us -- for example,
what section in STATUS we put changes in, who merges them and when,
etc. We can have that discussion anytime. I think just letting
Hyrum dictate how it will go might be the easiest solution, but it
doesn't really matter, as long as we know what method we're using.
The point is that these two topics are entirely independent: anything
we decide for "What To Release" is achievable; in fact, most outcomes
are achievable in more than one way -- which is why we muddied our
"What To Release" discussions with "How To Release" issues.
Let's please stop mixing these topics. The important topic here is
"What To Release". Once we decide that, we can have a much quicker
discussion about "How To Release".
Thanks,
-Karl
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Received on 2008-05-23 00:48:35 CEST