Re: [g-a-devel]questions about final tarballs due monday

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Malcolm:

With respect to branching, the approach we have been taking with
accessibility stuff has been 'just in time', i.e. we branch immediately
before doing anything that's incompatible with the current stable
release set.  So we'd create a 2.4. branch before adding features.  This
keeps us from having to merge bugfixes in the 2.4.X line until as late
as possible. 

GOK exports no libraries (outside its own package) and therefore
bincompat is not an issue, except possibly for the data formats it reads
(if users have created custom input files, etc.).

I think these same points apply to gnopernicus; we have advised that
these projects do not branch until post 2.4.1 at least, since we want to
remain in bugfix mode for awhile.

regards,

- Bill


On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 02:38, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> This is probably going to be too late, but for next time...
> 
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:23, David Bolter wrote:
> > Hi Adi,
> > 
> > Gok's GNOME 2.4.0 code has tags:
> > 
> > 1 gok_0_8_0
> > 2 GNOME_2_4_RELEASE and,
> > 3 GNOME_2_4_0
> > 
> > I think number 1 and 3 are all you should bother with.
> 
> You should also seriously consider making a branch called "gnome-2-4"
> before rolling any 2.4 tarballs if there is any chance things are going
> to become binary incompatible in the near future. Otherwise bug fixing
> for GNOME 2.4.1, etc, is going to be really difficult.
> 
> Although it has not been "officially approved" (hardly any GEPs have
> moved on from 'pending'), GNOME Enhancement Proposal #4
> (http://developer.gnome.org/gep/gep-4.html) is the way we all tend to do
> the version numbering and branching. So if you follow the
> recommendations there, your module(s) will look like everybody elses.
> 
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
> 
> 
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