In my job as release manager for a internet marketing company this is exactly what we do. I would say make a fresh branch from trunk, merge the changes in the existing branch over and then you can resolve conflicts and bug in that area with less concern of bit rot. When it is ready merge it into trunk...
On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Emmanuel Blot wrote: > >> So what I'd like to do instead is to release a 0.11beta1, as trunk >> stands now, and let people know that they should use this if they >> want >> to try out 0.11dev, because the trunk will become temporarily quite >> "unstable". > > Why not upgrading the genshi-510 branch instead, rather than > breaking the trunk? > > As a user, I would have prefered to keep the trunk usable. > I think it is better for new comers too, as it seems 'natural' to > check out the main development branch when one wants to give a try to > Trac - and expect it to work - rather than seeking document pages to > finally found the piece of info that says that "sorry guys, the trunk > cannot be used for now" ;-) > > Installing Trac is already a bit frustrating for new comers, I don't > think breaking down the trunk will help improving this common > feeling... > > Maybe it would be cleaner to decide that no one should commit to the > trunk - except for fixing critical/blocker issues - till the > genshi-510 branch is ready and finally merged. This would avoid > breaking down the trunk, and ensure that the genshi branch is kept > active. > > OTOH, I hope the security branch and the workflow branch to be merged > soon, in order to create the new "notification" branch (as already > discussed in a previous thread) ;-) > > Cheers, > Manu > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac 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/trac-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
