On 6 Oct 2006, at 19:16, Fred Kiefer wrote:
I like this proposal very much, there is one area, where I see
problems,
but we could wait until we actually face them. This is the
question, who
will be willing to work on the bugfix releases?
Most developers will spend their time and efforts on the new unstable
release, then somebody needs to decide that some change to the
unstable
release is worthwhile to be ported back to the last stable release,
integrate it there and make a release. The procedure itself sounds
fine,
but as long as nobody volunteers to actually follow it, it wont help.
Any volunteers?
Helge claims that people *will* backport fixes from unstable to
stable releases.
I'm not convinced, but I don't see any reason why we shouldn't try
it ... the worst that can happen is that nobody ever backports any
bugfixes, in which case we are really in much the same position that
we are in now ... the only additional overhead we have incurred is
making two releases at once.
The ideal situation is to persuade people who don't normally
contribute to do the bugfix backporting ... because they are just
backporting code that people have already contributed, there is
probably no copyright assignment issue, so we could accept *anyone*
doing that for us, without having to go through any administrative
formalities. That lowers the entry barrier for volunteer and we
would just need to review their patches and commit them.
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