I'm fixing #7162 right now. 2011/12/18 Dirk Stöcker <openstreet...@dstoecker.de>
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Simon Legner wrote: > > I know this delay is one of the drawbacks of our current development model >>> >> Git or Mercurial as VCS could easily deal with a stable master branch, >> development/feature branches and dealing with hot fixes (see for example >> [1]). >> >> I don't know whether it is an option to migrate to another VCS (maybe in >> the corse of [2]) … >> > > SVN can do the same (maybe not as good as git, but good enough). It is no > technical issue. The idea behind current model is to prevent the "may > others care for bugs, I care for new stuff" mentality of many projects I > know. If a developer wants to go on with new stuff he needs to make sure > that at end of stabilization phase the software really is stable. For JOSM > that seems to work pretty good (or we simply have the best developers of > the world :-) > > So as long as the team is small enough that the current model works I > prefer it over others. If the number of developers gets 10 times as large I > happily switch to new methods required to handle this ;-) > > > Ciao > -- > http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) > > _______________________________________________ > josm-dev mailing list > josm-dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev > > _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev