On Tuesday 05 August 2008 09:48:22 Will Coleda wrote: > Branches that don't rebase from trunk regularly are out of > touch, yes. If you rebase regularly, then you're basically just a > patch waiting to be applied.
... and, as time goes by, an ever-larger patch waiting to land on trunk with a big thunk of unbisectable, unreviewable code. > Whatever methodology we end up with, we also want it to address the > fact that it's probably going to be different once we have 1.0; We're > going to have to start using branches regularly to handle maintenance > and new feature releases. I would hesitate to recommend our current > system for that. Gah, no maintenance releases please! See "Mommy, why did it take over five years to release a new stable version of Perl 5 with a bugfix I made in 2002?" -- c
