Re: [Patches] Re: Outlining for 1.4

[Michael Gerz]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

I noticed that the 1.4 environment has already diverged quite a lot from
1.5, so this needs to get some thorough testing of its own. E.g.,
non-numbered headers are _not_ part of the ToC here.

IMHO, 1.5 has diverged too much already and have some additional 
features already so we should keep this feature as 1.5 and release it 
sooner than later. As far as I know, 1.5 is as stable as 1.4 if  not 
stabler. But we can wait for tomorrow to let the flame war begin ;-)

Well, if 1.5 has diverged too much in a particular area than we should 
not backport corresponding new features. In the past, we fixed bugs in 
the stable branch and backported features _only_ if they were safe. I 
think we should stick with this strategy unless we want to switch to the 
"extreme programming" methodology.

Are there any bug fixes than can no longer be backported? What are the 
new features that would justify a quickly released 1.5? (Personally, I 
would like to see a nicely working change tracking in the near future (I 
am still working on it) and I would also like to reintroduce the 
"Format". Two things that might come true in 1.4.[23])

Michael