On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 14:51, Hyrum K Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:48 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>wrote:
>
>> On 05/23/2011 02:25 PM, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
>> > The outcome of the hackathon was "we'll start alpha releases in June and
>> > branch when the blockers are gone"
>>
>> Hrm... that's not quite what I recall. But then, I remained somewhat
>> under-rested for the duration of the trip. :-)
>>
>> Our discussion of the default ra-dav implementation for 1.7.0 implied that
>> there could be open "blocker" issues even after we branch. (Because if any
>> of those blockers were serf-ish, that was our signal to restore ra_neon as
>> the default.) I hate to fuss over such fine details, but I believe we owe
>> it to ourselves to be clear on this general matter of branching.
>
>
> My recollection is that we essentially said that if there are blocking
> ra_serf issues when all the other blockers are gone, we'd flip back to
> ra_neon for the release. (So in a sense, the ra_serf blockers aren't really
> blockers at all.)
Right.
All non-serf blockers should be fixed before we branch. IOW, we get as
close to a release candidate as possible on trunk. (and if people want
to code new features, they should HIGHLY CONSIDER doing that on a
branch, for later reintegration).
Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-05-23 22:28:18 CEST