I don't think this made it to the list. Since it's support of an argument I made, I feel the need to ensure rdg gets proper representation. :)
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 21:00, rdg wrote: > >From my open source experience, I must aggree w/ Scott Russell > on the CVS HEAD being unstable. > > -rdg > > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 03:23, Scott Russell wrote: > > 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:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
