On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:17:03PM +0100, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > On 13 Apr 2009, at 19:45, Paul Davis wrote: > >> Is there a reason to not just take current trunk and tag it as 0.9.1? >> I'd be +1 for making some sort of release tarball with Jan's listed >> commits. > > I'm not proposing cutting a release just yet, just making sure we > define which commits go into the 0.9.x tree. I'd -1 using trunk to > cut 0.9.1; just for good practice. We do have the 0.9.x branch > and with the practice of "backporting" we make sure that we > don't step on each other in two branches and accidentally > commit stuff to the "stable" branch that is only meant for > "unstable" trunk. Right now it seems overkill but past > experience has shown that this is a good practice to keep > up.
Another reason for using the 0.9.x branch properly is that when we come to releasing 0.9.2, we need a solid base on which to prepare this release branch from. You can't easily do that without a dedicated branch. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
