On 23 Jan 2007, at 10:56, Matt Rice wrote:
so it would be good if we could get
these added now, (even if the code to use them is omitted from
the release due to instability or whatever) :D
Not to mention the move of NSAffineTransform out of gui and in to
base to match Apple ... which means that whenever we make a new
unstable release of gui we also need to make one of base.
Wouldn't it be good to backport bugfixes and make a stable release
of gui (and back) without all the incompatible changes asap though?
*shrug* pretty much indifferent on this.
It be nice if this were done proactively as bugfixes were
introduced though
I agree with that, but the fact is that we haven't done that in the
past, so if we are going to start we need a policy decision that
bugfixes are to be backported from trunk to the stable branch
immediately, and we need the developers working on svn to buy in to
the idea and actually do it. In an ideal world we would get new
developers (who aren't confident to leap in and do bigger jobs) to do
the backporting, but if we don't have any such volunteers we would
need to be prepared to do it ourselves.
The advantage of immediately backporting bugfixes (apart from making
the process of doing a new bugfix release a whole lot easier because
you don't have to try to backport a whole lot of changes in one go)
is that it would make it worthwhile to set up an automated snapshot
of the stable branch so that people could easily download something
with latest bugfixes in it.
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