On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
> On 1 April 2014 23:17, Ben Reser <ben_at_reser.org> wrote:
>> It's proving to be impossible to move forward with the alpha2 release.
>>
>> Let's officially say that alpha and beta releases only require 3 votes
>> (platform doesn't matter). This does not apply to release candidates.
> Hi Ben,
>
> I'm against this release policy change:
> 1. Good support of Windows platform is one of considerable advantages
> of Subversion against other open-source version contol systems.
>
> Windows has very different behavior on things that Subversion relies
> on: filename case-sensitivity, behavior of deleting/moving
> files/directories with open handles and locked files.
>
> That's why 3+3 release policy is very important for Subversion project.
Maybe the following would be a good compromise: for alpha and beta
releases we require 3 votes, of which minimum 1 Windows and minimum 1
Unix.
Then we're certain that it at least compiles and runs on one variant
of both platforms. It would be a bit embarrassing, even for alphas, if
the first user that tries it doesn't get it to compile, and it appears
noone in the dev community actually tried it.
--
Johan
Received on 2014-04-03 10:53:05 CEST