Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions

[John Meinel]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > It seems like a huge mess to me...  E.g. what's the status of all the
> > > stuff merged into the "prerelease" by James -- and the corresponding
> > > bugs closed?  Does all that have to be re-submitted now?  Where?  How?
> > > When?  [What?]
> >
> > Not to mention Why.  We were 1 line of code away from the best release 
> > of tla since 1.2 came out last February.  I haven't heard a convincing 
> > argument that we should abandon the work we put into it.  Sure, we 
> > should consider new ways of moving forward, but I think we should 
> > grandfather 1.2.2 and get it out.
>
>
> I believe it was and is just a matter of someone willing to
> do the work.
>
> No one stepped up to the plate...

I don't think that's quite it. jblack had pretty much done all the work. 
After we hit the wall between him and Tom, Tom came back with the new 
style for merging into mainstream arch. Where all changes are split up 
into special branches to retain the history, etc, etc.

I believe that tla-1.2.2rc2 was just waiting for final approval from Tom 
to be released as tla-1.2.2. Since Tom changed his mind about how 
releases should be done, he probably isn't going to approve 1.2.2 as an 
official release.

I agree with Aaron, though. That Tom should go ahead and review and 
release 1.2.2 as an official version, and then move on to tla 1.3. That 
way we at least have an interim release which avoids some of the 
problems with 1.2.1 official (like the 1k boundary stuff.)

John
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