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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Small branch survey
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-10-26 20:09:12
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
That's what I have in mind too, but I'd drop the message freeze
and make that a "no new to be documented behaviour".  And adding
a 13 dec - no new translation.

I mean, the advantage is that we'll ship a new KDE before everyone
leaves for holidays and coming back we have about 2000 bugs to
close saying "yes, the SuSE 7.1 you got christmas ships KDE 2.0..." ;-)

Greetings, Stephan

-- 
Frauen und Maenner passen vielleicht nicht zusammen, aber meine 
allerschoensten Schrammen habe ich mir bei diesem Duell geholt.
					       -- Reinhard Mey

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