Stefan Seifert wrote:
Why the need for an odd subtree then?
Normal end users use the released packages on the webpage (currently
0.9.9). Everyone else, including developers and bleeding edge people
already check out from CVS.
One could branch the 1.0 tree in CVS and provide small fixes on that
while development of big stuff goes on on CVS trunk, but that's no
need for any change in version numbering. 1.0.x gets updated until
trunk is stable enough to release 1.1 or so. Like Curt said, a flight
simulator is not an essential system service where many other things
build upon and need a stable base. Normally pretty everyone should
want future updates as soon as they are stable enough for end users.
Linux Kernel versioning has change a _lot_ since 2.6. There is not
even a real development branch anymore.
I think as flightgear develops and matures, there argument for an
even-stable/odd-devel release system will grow a lot stronger, but for
the moment, development has been moving so quickly with so many new
important features being added, that our attempts at a stable release
have largely been ignored, simply because the devel releases ahead of it
were so much better.
It is interesting to have this discussion though. At the start of this
project, the big focus was to get anyone interested. I was very focused
on generating enough forward progress to keep people from giving up and
moving on to other stuff. At that point I felt like I largely carried
the project on my back and if I would have dropped it, the whole thing
would have quickly died.
That emerged into a period where we seemed to hit a critical mass.
FlightGear still had a *long* way to go and many important features that
were missing. But I felt that we had enough interest, enough
developers, enough people committed to using it that the project was
starting to take on a life of it's own.
Now as we look forward, we are talking less about a mad scramble to add
basic features (although there are a few important things left to add)
and more about stability and content (aircraft, scenery, etc.)
So this discussion of odd/even releases may be a bit premature at the
moment, but it is something we should possibly consider again sometime
after our 1.0 release.
Curt.
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HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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