>>>>> "Ronan" == Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ronan> On November 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> Hence, I've been looking forward -- for months! -- to see a release
>> plan for bbdb 2.2. [feature freeze, pre-release, testing, etc...]
Ronan> Hmm. I'm not terribly good at that sort of stuff when it's not
Ronan> actually a day job. Having said that, I was hoping to get a
Ronan> BBDB-2.2 release out the door before the end of the year. That
Ronan> was before the Holiday Spirit overtook me :) I'm currently
Ronan> working through my mailbox looking at patches, bug reports and
Ronan> feature suggestions; what I'm planning is that I fix majorly
Ronan> broken things right now (e.g. bbdb-whois) or switch them off
Ronan> temporarily, and put new features on the "to do" queue unless
Ronan> they're either provided as a working patch or small matters of
Ronan> programming. I should have a better handle on how much work this
Ronan> involves by tomorrow, assuming the Beer Faeries don't spirit me
Ronan> off to the pub again...
Ronan> Once I get a 2.2 release nailed, I'll start a 2.3 branch on the
Ronan> tree and dev work will go into that. And I might even make a
Ronan> plan.
Sounds good.
Yes, please nail something like a release plan for 2.2.
Do a ``feature freeze'' as soon as possible,
starting a 2.3 branch at the same time (or even a bit earlier),
and then just only fix the remaining important bugs in pre-2.2.
Jould could then even keep 2.2 as `stable' and even have 2.2.1 , 2.2.2
while still continuing new developement in 2.3.
The important and not quite trivial but still easy part is the
regular ``merging'' of 2.2.x fixes into 2.3.
In our GNU project (www.R-project.org), we have been doing this for a few
years now, quite successfully. We even have some notes on how to
go about the branches, merging: On http://developer.R-project.org/
look at "CVS tips" and "developer guidelines"
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