On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Simon Laws<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, ant elder<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Simon Laws<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Simon Laws<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:58 PM, ant elder<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> How are we doing with this? I've checked in all the changes i have and
>>>>> just had a full build of the latest 1.x code complete successfully,
>>>>> should we take a branch soon before anything breaks?
>>>>>
>>>>>   ...ant
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've got a couple of things I need to check in. I'll ping back here
>>>> when I'm done.
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not done yet but wanted to close off whether we are branching to 1.6
>>> or 1.5.1. I prefer 1.6 because all changes have been made to 1.x
>>> rather than to a branch of 1.5. To do 1.5 it would be more appropriate
>>> to branch 1.5 and then apply the changes which seems the more complex
>>> of the two choices.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>
>> Complex in what way?
>>
>> - To create a 1.5.1 svn copy 1.x and rename all the versions to 1.5.1
>>
>> - To create a 1.6 svn copy 1.x and rename all the versions to 1.6 and
>> then rename all the versions in trunk to 1.7
>>
>> So going with 1.5.1 seems simpler as we don't need to bump up the trunk 
>> version.
>>
>> I'm not sure it matters for 1.5.1 vs 1.6 where the changes where
>> actually first committed, users wont know or care so it doesn't matter
>> if the release is based on a copy of trunk or old 1.5 branch. If you
>> really prefer 1.6 i guess i don't mind, but i wonder what the release
>> notes will have to say other than a few bug fixes, and it was only a
>> month since 1.5 so at that rate we'll quite quickly run out of 1.x
>> release numbers soon.
>>
>>   ...ant
>>
>
> I agree that the release notes will be mainly fixes of whichever we go
> and from that pov 1.5.1 seems appropriate. The reason I'm not keen on
> 1.5.1 as the changes have been made to 1.x and not the 1.5 code base.
> Splitting hairs maybe but there you go.
>
> Simon
>

Ignore the spring problem it's bogus. Some problem with running mvn
with Eclipse open (I get that a lot).

Simon

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