I recently moved from one apartment to another in the same complex. We had a two-week overlap where we had access to both places so rather than move everything over at once, we moved things we most wanted first, made sure they were set up and then moved on to the next thing. Anything that needed replacing or we didn't want anymore, we left in the old place until the last day when we threw it out.
The Pinax team are undertaking a very similar approach to getting Pinax ready for 0.9 release. There are parts of Pinax that are mature and in production use; there are parts that need cleaning up; and there are parts which need to be replaced completely. Rather than doing all that in-place, we've set up a new branch called fresh-start. We've moving things over incrementally, starting with foundational starter projects and only the pieces they need. This means that, early on, the fresh-start branch will be pretty sparse (like my new apartment was the first few days). But the stuff that's there will be production ready, or very close to it, and will be reflective of the plans for the 0.9 release. This also gives us an opportunity to do a better job of tests and documentation by helping prioritize our time to the most important and stable parts of the codebase. If there's stuff in Pinax master that isn't in the fresh-start branch, it could be that we simply haven't gotten to it yet. Or it could mean we're deprecating its usage and plan an alternative approach in the new branch (and hence 0.9). If in doubt, please ask us our plans. We are in the process of setting up an alternative issue tracking system instance for the fresh-start branch (which will still be based on Pinax, of course). This will help us focus on the code being prepared for release rather than sorting out issues in code that will be discontinued anyway. We will keep you posted on this new tracking system. James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pinax Core Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pinax-core-dev?hl=en.
