Okay, sure. On 25 Jun 2010, at 18:58, J Chris Anderson wrote:
> > On Jun 25, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > >> On 25 Jun 2010, at 18:36, Jan Lehnardt wrote: >> >>> I don't care much either way about where to cut 1.0 from at this point >>> except I wish this would have been brought up earlier so I didn't had to >>> waste a lot of time on the backports. >> >> I do. >> >> When we set out our release procedure, we said that we could cut all new >> versions from trunk. We copy trunk to a branch folder, and release from that >> into tags. Bug fixes are back-ported to the branches and then cut to a new >> tag. >> > > I agree with you Noah, that we should cut new versions from trunk (in > general). > > A few months ago we discussed a plan whereby 1.0 would be cut from 0.11.x. > The idea behind this was to make sure no one sat on code that would be good > for 1.1 but not 1.0. Eg: feel free to commit crazy stuff to trunk, as long as > you don't backport to 0.11.x, it won't be in 1.0. > > However, it turned out that trunk hasn't seen much action that we should > leave out of 1.0, so I'm happy to stick to our normal release procedure here, > and cut from 1.0 from trunk. I know others disagree with me and think we > should stick to our stated plan of cutting it from 0.11.x > > I don't actually care what we branch from. I'm also not bothered by the idea > of doing differently than we planned. > > What matters is that 1.0 have the same code as trunk (minus whatever commits > need holding back for 1.1). > > (apologies if this got sent twice... bah, mail clients) > >> I'm really not up to speed with what is going on at the moment, but I must >> say that I find whatever it is quite confusing. It is my uneducated >> preference that we stick to the release procedure as it is documented. >> >> If the release procedure is defective in some way, then I propose we update >> it to fix whatever process bug we found that has caused us to do whatever it >> is that we're doing at the moment. I'm just really not happy with procedure >> deviating from what is documented. It makes my job harder, for a start. >
