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.