2009/11/13 Xavier Oswald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xoswald@gmail.com">xoswald@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 15:32 Fri 13 Nov , Mildred Ki'Lya wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> (french at the end)<br>
><br>
> It has been some time that I was thinking about this, and I think I<br>
> should put it here for debate.<br>
><br>
> The problem: in the past, we spent too much time between releases.<br>
><br>
> A solution:<br>
><br>
> I think we should agree to make releases regularly, regardless of<br>
> whenever we added many new features or not. The idea is that every 6<br>
> month (Halloween and May Day, that seem to be popular) we would start to<br>
> make a release.<br>
><br>
> I thought that if we agreed to this we would need two branches, at least<br>
> before the release. One would be frozen to prepare it for the release,<br>
> only accepting bugfixes. The other would continue to accept approved<br>
> features and would merge with the first to get the bugfixes as well.<br>
<br>
</div>Doing two branches or such is useful for larger community than our.<br>
<br>
What I think is:<br>
<br>
* if we do a release twice a year, we should freeze stable 1 month before the<br>
release. The point here is if do this choice , 1 month is not enough<br>
for having something of good quality. But for a each 6 months release, we<br>
cannot avoid more than 1 month for freeze.<br>
<br>
* Im more favorable of releasing each year and having 2 or 3 months of freeze<br>
for the stable branch.<br>
<br>
We have to keep in mind that releasing is not only working on the compiler.<br>
Website has to be updated, announcement have to be done, and the biggest thing<br>
is that we need to update the documentation too. If we release each 6 months Im<br>
afraid of the lack of manpower to be able to do such a thing. We are only few<br>
people working around Lisaac and for me, it seems fair to release each year for<br>
the quality of the project.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I absolutely agree with this point of view, our community is not big enough and moreover <br>there is a lot of work to be done in the documentation. 2 release per year is too much and <br>we have to favour quality.<br>
As Xavier said we have to freeze the stable 2 or 3 month before release in order to have a high <br>quality release.<br>The key feature is to make regular and complete report to benoit about the feature each member is developping.<br>
This way benoit can merge them more easely and more efficiently to the master branch and moreover he can merge <br>to the stable branch more often. Indeed a good communication about all developping features let Ben to work <br>
better and to have fewer bug when freezing the stable.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
What could be fun is that we freeze stable the 1st October and we release the<br>
15th December. So people will have a new release of Lisaac to play with during<br>
christmas (when people have more time than during the year).<br>
And It will be the Christmas Gift to the community and people playing with<br>
Lisaac ;)<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Hey Santa Claus what's my present ? <br>A brand new Lisaac realase, my son.<br>;)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
> But we can also keep only one branch (stable). stable would be frozen<br>
> for features before the release, and new features would be kept in<br>
> separate branches (one branch per feature).<br>
<br>
</div>That the right way for now I think.<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
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