[haiku-development] Re: Pre-Alpha Release Builds

  • From: "Niels Reedijk" <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:35:24 +0200

2008/10/24 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
>
> On 2008-10-24 at 13:21:43 [+0200], Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> 2008/10/24 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
>> > I would suggest to branch only for a short "cool down" period (maybe two
>> > or
>> > three weeks) when all alpha items on our list have been resolved. During
>> > this time it should be made sure that no new major bugs have been
>> > introduced.
>>
>> Or we could just have a code freeze (where only bug fixes are allowed
>> to be committed). This is a common thing in other open source
>> projects.
>
> That's the whole point of the branch. Freezing the trunk would be pretty
> annoying, since everyone with an unsuitable change would have to create a
> branch. Or at least a common branch for all post-r1-alpha1 development,
> which is basically the same strategy as creating a release branch with the
> difference, that this way around the branch would have to be merged back
> into the trunk after the release.

Or it would just mean that every one has their non-bugfix improvements
stored in their local trees until after the freeze. I would imagine it
being only a week or two (enough for everyone to perform a final test
of the codebase and the binary release). No branching necessary.

N.

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