On May 6, 2009, at 3:32 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
We should experiment freely on trunk/ to come up with the right
solutions,
and also freely discard those solutions from the next release
branch. But
we shouldn't throw changes willy nilly over to 2.2, but as Paul
says, let's
focus on making 2.4 "the best available version of Apache" with all
of the
new facilities that come with it.
What new facilities? Are we moving to serf, for example?
It's for these reason that I suggested that before we start breaking
trunk by adding stuff willy-nilly we branch off a 2.4 tree... If we
would say "this is 2.4... clean it up and fix it" then we could get
2.4 out soon. Instead, we have trunk being both a experimental
sandbox for new stuff and the *only* place these will see the light
anytime soon is in backporting to 2.2.
If we are serious about 2.4, we branch now. trunk remains the dev branch
and we clean-up the 2.4 branch and backport from trunk to 2.4...
We cannot "experiment freely" on trunk and at the same time try
to focus down a 2.4 release...
