On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:36 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>wrote:
> On 02/14/2013 12:21 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > Philip indicated yesterday on IRC that all local move features
> > he wanted to get to implemented for 1.8 now have code written.
> > So now we're all waiting for the "local moves" yellow light on
> > roadmap.html to turn green.
>
> Awesome! Congratulations, Philip!
>
Hooray!
> > I think now is the time where we should either start cutting 1.8 alpha
> > releases from trunk, or branch 1.8 and then start issuing alpha releases
> > from the branch. In either case we should ask the community to build
> > binaries and ask our user base to help test them. (I don't expect alpha
> > builds to be used in IDEs, however many users could try to update
> > refactored working copies with the command line client and report back.
> > This would also be a good test for the 'svn upgrade' code.)
> >
> > What do you all think?
>
> As you said, every day we delay branching 1.8 is a day in which real
> stabilizing work can get done without the cost of additional process. On
> the other hand, that's also a day in which potentially de-stabilizing work
> can get done without focused additional eyes and process to help catch the
> problems until later. Seems like a toss-up to me.
>
> The benefits that I see to branching now are that 1) it sends the signal to
> our users that we're serious about actually releasing something, and 2) it
> call us all into agreement about what that something will be as we mutually
> agree to hold off on slipping in new features and resolve to stabilize and
> ultimately ship what we have.
>
+1
> As such -- and assuming no one else has a feature waiting in the wings and
> can make a compelling case for further delaying the release to accommodate
> it -- I lean towards branching ASAP. And yes, +1 on delivering alphas as
> soon as the branch is cut!
>
Apart from the usual bug fixes, I only plan to add a few
bells and whistles to fsfs-stats. But that is very low risk
work wrt. svn stability.
One last bit: BDB support. I hope I will finally be able to run
a few "realistic" performance tests as suggested by you
(Apache, merge operations). We should reach consensus
on this before cutting the first beta.
-- Stefan^2.
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Received on 2013-02-14 23:07:28 CET