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

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

Hey Bill,

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 20:26, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I wasn't meaning to try and teach anybody how to suck eggs. :-)

It sounds like the involved people have thought this all through. I need
to learn to keep my foot out of my mouth.

Cheers,
Malcolm