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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: The Road Ahead
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-07-25 19:27:34
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:57:48PM +0200, Lauri Watts wrote:
> I would like to suggest a rather radical change to the whole KDE development 
> cycle for consideration/evaluation.
> 
> Based loosely on the FreeBSD and Debian models, I propose that CVS is 
> branched to a -STABLE branch, leaving -HEAD as unstable.  

As the biggest problem with KDE I have at the moment is that so many things
break in the HEAD branch every now and then, this seems a good idea.

Maybe the 'why' is not immidiately clear;
I have 2 options now; run the latest released code (aka bugfixing branch)
or HEAD, and since the time between releases is quite long using the branch
(which dies after a month or 2) is not really nice.

When this branch stays more alive, and is updated with proven-working code
then we create far more stable branch, and more people will use this branch.

This naturally leads to better bug-reports, since more people will be using
this branch and code there is said to be 'ok'. So I can now report a bug that
is there as soon as it appears. Now I wait a couple of days since the author 
will probably fix it himself.

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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