On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 09:57, Victor Mote wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > 1.0 as soon as possible. I'm grateful for Victor's work and I hope it > > won't be a distraction. Because distractions may leave the focus of > > potential co-developers on the maintenance branch even though the > > redesign is already quite advanced. > > I'm aware that this is a concern. However, consider the following: > 1. The layout redesign is not the only work that is needed before a 1.0 > release. If people can work on the other features in parallel with those who > are working on redesign, then we get to 1.0 faster.
Wouldn't that work better under the same design prinicples and support code. The branch does not have this. > 2. As I understand it, there is maintenance code work that needs to be > merged into the trunk anyway. This should accomplish that, again in parallel > with the redesign. We don't want to have features in 0.20.4 that aren't in > 1.0. Only about 1 or 2 minor things that I know, is there a list of them anywhere. We are working on a 1.0 final, in the meantime we could do a developers release that has less. > 3. If we can get the code that should be common merged, then anyone who > works on common code for the benefit of the maintenance branch must make > sure that they haven't broken anything in the redesign along the way. This > *might* expose them more to the redesign work. > 4. If the old layout is as dead-end as I have been told (and I have no > reason to doubt it), then *no one* will want to spend any time on the code > that is specific to the maintenance branch only. People working on layout > will do so in the redesign code, people working on anything else will do so > in the common code. We can still quibble about whether people should be > working on this or that, but at least everyone will be working on 1.0. It comes down to resources, who will do all this. > That is the theory anyway. > > Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
