RE: [TSVN] Re: Releasing

Simon Large wrote:
> Jens Peters wrote:
>>> I think we should stick with what we do now. Make releases in sync
>>> with Subversion. Those who want to test new features can always use
>>> a nightly build. I really don't like the idea of making more
>>> official releases, because it's always a lot of work (complete
>>> rebuild, uploading, adjusting the links manually, get the
>>> translators to update, build the language packs, upload the
>>> language packs, adjust the links there too, ...)
>>>
>>> I'd rather spend that time working on TSVN.
>>>
>> That's my opinion as well .. Keep it like it is.
>
> ... and it wouldn't work anyway. What are you going to release? Stall
> HEAD until there are no negative comments for 2 weeks? That would halt
> all progress. Create a branch every 2 weeks and apply only bugfix
> revisions? That could work, but would possibly be *less* stable as you
> would be releasing a patched branch, and Stefan would be
> bogged down in
> branch maintenance all the time.
>
> This sort of scheme might be OK for Subversion where there is a large
> active development team and some full-time employees, but
> when Stefan is
> maintaining the code single handed it's just one burden too many. And
> SVN only does a release every few months, not every 2 weeks.
>
> I vote to keep it like it is too.

Me too, FWIW.

Bill

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