Russ Allbery wrote: > 1.3.x is the development series for 1.4. Nothing is going into the 1.3.x > releases that isn't also going to go into 1.4 (to do so would be very > confusing, since people upgrading from 1.3 to 1.4 would see features go > away). > > These changes *could* be committed to the trunk right now, and if Jim > decides to do that, I certainly don't object. In general, though, the > more stuff that's on the trunk that isn't targetted for 1.4, the more > there is to keep track of and the more complicated it is to be sure that > we got everything for the release. > > I'm sitting on several patches that I plan to commit as soon as 1.4 is > released and it feels safer for the trunk to start diverging from the > stable release again. > > 1.4 has already been delayed for several months and needs to be released > as soon as we sort out the last few bugs. There is absolutely no way that > I'm going to do major new work in 1.4 right now. Sorry, you're just going > to have to live with that. > > Many of these sorts of changes should be eligible for 1.4.1 or 1.4.2.
I completely agree with Russ. 1.3.xx is feature frozen in preparation for the 1.4.0 release. Once 1.4.0 is gold we will start a 1.5.xx series for new development. It is possible that some new development will be back ported to the 1.4.xx branch and appear in future 1.4 series releases. However, those changes in general are going to be few and far between. As for the need to have documentation. I certainly agree that documentation is great to have but the reality is that the software can be frozen and then documentation can be written while the developers go off and work on the next major release. In fact, in some ways that is just easier since the documentation folks don't need to worry about the software changing out from underneath them. Jeffrey Altman
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