On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:25:01AM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
> Yes. Go back to having new releases when there is enough interesting
> content to justify the release. We can lower the bar from the old days.
> There does not need to always be a big ticket feature or two driving the
> release, but if there is nothing worthy of a release we should not do one
> just because the calendar says so.
I also had concerns in the beginning when Julian brought up the
proposal of time-based releases. I didn't expect it to work.
But I think what Julian has shown us is that the calendar keeps us honest
in our commitment to actually do releases. If Julian hadn't been driving
this, I believe we would be in a situation where fixes would accumulate
on trunk and not be released at all, because a general lack of activity
makes doing releases look like a lot of work unless we're used to doing
them regularly and the process is streamlined accordingly.
I have experience with time-based releases in another community (OpenBSD).
Releases happen every 6 months, like clock work. There's not much worry
about fixes and features missing the boat, because the next boat will be
prepared and ready soon enough. Avoiding the introduction of regressions
in new releases is a much bigger concern there, everything else can wait
when in doubt.
I think this would also work well for Subversion, but we have to adopt a
mind set that makes this work.
In my opinion the world will not end for Subversion when Python 2 falls
out of support, even if no current release of SVN fully supports Python 3.
This is because our userbase has been slowing down with us. For the most
part, Subversion is not run on the latest version of Linux of the day.
It is run on server operating systems like Red Hat and Windows 20xx Server
which will still have Python 2 around. Our new LTS release scheme is a
good fit for this.
Most SVN clients are TortoiseSVN on corporate desktops. The Linux client
install base has moved on to Git/Hg. People being hired as software
developers on Linux today have usually never worked with SVN and won't
be expected to.
I have not followed these Python 3 patches closely but it sounds like we
are very close to having full support for Python 3 on trunk already or
will have it soon. Which means it will be ready in time for 1.14 LTS as
originally scheduled. Is that really not enough?
Received on 2019-10-21 16:59:16 CEST