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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Small branch survey
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-10-26 18:55:47
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On Thursday 26 October 2000 18:28, Harri Porten wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > > I totally agree. To me it seems, more bug fixes actually go into HEAD right
> > > now.
> > 
> > This is what is supposed to happen !!!!!
> > The branch was asked by translators. It's mainly for releasing a fully translated
> > version of 2.0.
> > The development (including most bugfixes, because most bugfixes are never really
> > guaranteed to be 100% safe) is done in HEAD. Only critical bugfixes go to the branch,
> > those that are guaranteed not to break something else.
> > 
> > If you wanted a branch for stabilising 2.0, we should have decided that way. But
> > that's not what was decided - we all hate branching the development.
> > 
> > Did you actually read kde-core-devel before ?
> 
> We both did. It's just the question about the ETA of 2.1. We could have
> planned to release a bugfix version in two weeks that would fix the 10
> most prominent bugs (= 90% of complaints). Are we ?

... and that would break translations ? If we want to do that, we have to backport
those fixes and release the branch. Think about what translators would do if
we released HEAD, with e.g. a completely untranslated bookmark editor
(you know who to blame :).

I'm fine with releasing 2.0.1 as soon as possible. But releasing HEAD is a no-no
I'm afraid.

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