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Trevor Harmon wrote:
>> I'll tell you when the branch is opened and the freeze of the HEAD
>> branch is over (not yet!).
>
>Pardon me if this has been discussed before (it's not in the developer FAQ=
),
>but I thought the whole point of CVS was to avoid freezing the source code
> in these situations. I'm not a CVS expert, but I would have thought that
> when the code goes into a "release candidate" phase, it branches into a
> tree that is separate from HEAD. That way, showstopper fixes can be appli=
ed
> separately to the 3.1 branch while everyone can work on HEAD without
> affecting the stable 3.1. Of course, this produces some extra work because
> the showstopper fixes would have to be ported to the HEAD, but the big
> benefit is that we wouldn't have to halt development of 3.2 for several
> weeks. Am I missing something?

Ok, I'm probably not the best person to answer this, but here it goes, the =
way=20
I see it:

the development isn't halted. It's just that HEAD is, at this time, targete=
d=20
to the 3.1 release. So, things that don't go into 3.1, don't go into HEAD,=
=20
right? If you want to develop more things that won't be for 3.1, you can=20
develop in a branch, like the make_it_cool branch or the KDE_3_0_BRANCH.

Soon, however, HEAD will be branched and the KDE_3_1_BRANCH will be created=
,=20
from where the 3.1.1, 3.1.2 and whatever other releases will be made, if=20
necessary. HEAD, at that time, will begin full 3.2 development. You may the=
n=20
merge your make_it_cool branch or whatever you named it, as well as forthpo=
rt=20
(yuck!) any changes made in the 3.1 or 3.0 branches, if that happened.[

But I should like to say that, at this time, all developers should be more=
=20
interested in getting 3.1 done right rather than be doing the cool new=20
features for 3.2. There's no harm in waiting a few more weeks, if it takes=
=20
that much, to begin working for 3.2. 3.1, however, can't wait.

Just my 0,02 =A4

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