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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: HEAD open for commits
From:       Andy Fawcett <andy () athame ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-11-29 8:27:25
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On Friday 29 November 2002 10:06, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > CVS HEAD is open for commits again for KDE 3.2 release.
>
> I must say that I am not happy to hear this.
>
> I still am unable to compile three packages in KDE_3_1_0_RELEASE.

Which three packages?

What platform are you compiling on? OS? Release? Compiler? Tools?

Where do they fail?

For info, I've built the entire release here, barring a few linux 
specific things, on FreeBSD. If you tell us what doesn't build, we can 
get them fixed, or tell you where you are going wrong if the problem is 
with your setup.

As for the development model we use, it works, and we have been 
successfully using it for quite some time now. At no point does the 
release branch become unimportant, as seen by Dirk's backports of HEAD 
fixes to 3.1 Branch, 3.0 Branch, etc yesterday. If a fix is warranted, 
it will be backported to all relevent branches.

Yes, this means that sometimes we fix things in more than one place, but 
that is not necessarily a bad thing.

Oh, as a rider to your closing comments, some of us are also software 
professionals and not "self taught hackers". Don't tar the whole 
project with the same brush.

In retrospect, spend some time seeing how the KDE development project 
works (and it _does_ work), before coming in with your guns blazing. 
There are many models to software development, and there is none that 
stands out above the rest.

Andy

-- 
Andy Fawcett      |   "In an open world without walls and fences,
andy@athame.co.uk |      we wouldn't need Windows and Gates."
tap@lspace.org    |                              -- anon

 
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