On Montag, 25. November 2002 20:26, 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
> applied 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?
Yes. You're missing that you're supposed to bug fix somewhen.

Greetings, Stephan