On 05/06/2009 10:09 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > 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... > >
+1 Regards Rüdiger
