I'm new to this group, but not to distributed development - in my experience, normally the cvs HEAD is unstable, and stable branches get formed off of it, providing release platforms. Good features and bugfixes get backported to stable branches if someone cares enough to do so, ususally by a release maintenance team, not the dev team.
Of course, every project forms it's own culture, and it looks like running critical webware servers directly out of CVS is the norm for some people. I'm forced to wonder how you maintain release control, perform defect tracking, prove code coverage and regression testing and ensure code stability with this policy, though. Aren't these issues what releases and release branches are for? On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 20:16, Tavis Rudd wrote: > On Saturday 22 March 2003 17:06, Tripp Lilley wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Tavis Rudd wrote: > > > Why don't you create a temporary development branch of the cvs? > > > > I gotta throw a +1 onto this fire :) I synced the other night to the CVS > > head having not seen this message and was bummed when it barfed on me. > > Since I was actively working on something else, I didn't bother to chase > > down the barf, but reverted to 0.8. But I agree with Tavis... radical work > > should (IMHO) go on in a dev branch until it's "close" to stable. Some > > oddball corner cases are okay, but general stability is desirable in the > > mainline. > > Considering the history of several refactorings of WebKit's core over the last > two years - the developers eventually lost interest in them or became too > busy to finish them off and push for a release - I agree with Ian. If his > refactoring of Application.py is going to be in the next release, it should > be in the main branch. Otherwise it'll never get the exposure and serious > testing required. > > > > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 04:04, Ian Bicking wrote: > > > > CVS has been very stable previously. You should not expect that, at > > > > least for the next couple weeks. 0.8 is has all the features that CVS > > > > does (prior to these commits), so use that if you want stability. But > > > > if you don't mind bugs, please help me test! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
