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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: today's merges
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Tobias C. Rittweiler |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: today's merges |
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Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:34:54 +0200 |
On Monday, September 1, 2003 at 7:53:24 AM,
Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
[three-branch release process:]
> 1) Stable. As Tom puts it ``The policy for $STABLE is to fix bugs that
> "have to be fixed" [...]
>
> 2) Development. Adding features like $FEATURE-X, but requiring that
> they be added in ways that have minimal impact on stable features,
> [...] This limits you to features that don't need low-level changes to
> the core. [...]
>
> 3) Research. Blue sky, anything goes, for feature design. [...]
Some not-so-much time ago I figured a very similiar method, but before
having read this, I wasn't really aware of what precisely I had in mind.
As I wouldn't have ever been able to describe it so clearly, I owe you
something.
> This got vetoed, though, on the grounds that nobody would be willing
> to run and work on branch (2), [...]
That makes me wonder. In my opinion about this concept, the development
tree is still the place, where (actually) most of the progress is made.
And so it comes that I wouldn't plaid for _one_ research tree, instead
I'd advocate a loosely coupled network of several trees. Everyone who
wants to try something different can and should do it---in his own
research branch which he puts publically available and where everyone
can cherry-pick from.
This has the advantage that the range of research keeps openly and wide.
Arch makes it technically possible. :-)
On Monday, September 1, 2003 at 11:07:22 AM,
Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> wrote:
> If you have (2), and it's *that* reliable, why bother with (1) at all?
(2) is in no way reliable. After all there gets a damn lot of new stuff
added. It's just that the current infrastructure is adhered to as much
as possible (in contrary to (3)).
-- tcr (address@hidden) ``Ho chresim'eidos uch ho poll'eidos sophos''