Release plans

[Michael Sperber]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Michael Sperber writes:
>
>  > The reason why I advocated branching after GPLv3 is that I expect more
>  > aggressive development after that.
>
> BTW, it occurs to me that there's really no point in doing this until
> we have a release date in mind -- hg can rewind to anywhere we want
> and branch from there ex post.
>
> In particular, I intend doing both pre- and post-GPLv3-merge betas.
> The former for the sake of 21.4 and Julian, and the latter because it
> will be easy to do (the tedious parts of doing a release are (1)
> getting a build and (2) writing the release notes, both of which
> should be trivial post-GPLv3 given a pre-GPLv3 release) and seems like
> a good checkpoint.  So at any later date we can choose to base stable
> on GPLv3-tag, or on GPLv3 plus low- hanging-fruit syncs (which are the
> ones I think are likely to get committed first, anyway.  WDYT?)
>
>  > So this is a good time to branch off for stability.
>
> Do you still think that given the above discussion?  Or is there
> something I'm still missing?

It's a process question: If you branch off later, you'll have aggressive
development and bug fixes mixed, and that can't be easily separated
after the fact.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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