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

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:43:07 +0200 CEST

> > 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.

Except they won't be able to build alpha unless they svn diff && svn
revert everything or svn co again elsewhere...
But then with a branch one has to svn co elsewhere anyway...

François.

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