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Re: Stable branch will freeze.
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: Stable branch will freeze. |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:59:03 -0800 |
From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
Date: 15 Mar 2002 09:24:06 +0000
The real problem here is that we don't have a shared view of what is
release critical. We used to, but I think that sense was blown off
course by the volume of bugs that have been reported recently.
another problem is prescriptive (as opposed to descriptive) branching --
we created branch_release-1-6 w/o release-related criteria on when to
branch. this creates an expectation of "stableness" w/o anyone really
being able to define that state, and the expectation is self-fulfilling:
when things are broken it's easy to rationalize leaving them be so as
not to disturb the stableness.
thi
Re: Stable branch will freeze., Evan Prodromou, 2002/03/16