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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Small branch survey
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-10-26 19:46:41
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On Thursday 26 October 2000 11:28, 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 ?

I'm using the following schedule for my self, I hope it's not too far off 
from reality (and realistic wrt translations):

20 nov release of kde 2.0.1
20 nov freeze of kde 2.1 (no new translations, bugfix only, all patches must 
be reviewed) 
18 dec release of kde 2.1

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
KDE/Linux, you make the choice.

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