On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Petr Uzel wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 03:10:22PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Montag 24 August 2009 schrieb Petr Uzel:
what should we do with 'version update' requests coming to a devel project?
Since Factory is now frozen, by accepting such request, the code would diverge between the devel project and Factory and so further bugfixes through the devel project would be impossible.
On the other hand, declining/ignoring the request might upset the contributor and discourage him/her from any further contributions.
Don't ignore it, decline it with the comment that he should come back after 11.2. Sticking to rules is not something bad, the rules may not be known to everyone.
There are two reasons for the feature/version freeze for 11.2: - keep time to find (and preferable fix) the bugs in that specific version, don't replace them continuely with new bugs - keep developers from spending on new features and new versions, but fix the bugs found so far.
No doubts that version freeze is needed - I'm definitely not saying we should 'break' the rules just to make contributors happy.
Of course if someone comes along and has only one interest: the latest version for 11.1 and the 11.2 devel project is happen to be set to the only repo that has such new versions, then there is a problem.
In other words, there is a problem when the devel project also serves as a backports project - I think this holds for most devel projects. IMHO splitting such devel projects to 'real' devel project (used exclusively for Factory development) and backport project (no freeze, built for e.g. 10.3-11.1) might solve some of the problems.
Benefits: - one can always update foo to newest version regardless of the Factory 'version freeze' period - if the backport project contained just source links to Factory/devel project, one can fix builds for older distros just by adding a patch without the need of submitting that to Factory
What do you think?
I really like this idea. We really need the ability to have a current
version and a backport/patched for version freezes.
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Boyd Gerber