I'm starting a short series of occasional posts to capture the current
collective state of mind on the next release. I'll float them here for
refinement or lazy consensus, and then we may want to reuse this text in
wiki or blog posts to avoid repeating the same concepts over and over.
Let's start with branches.
We all wish 4.1.4 to be the last 4.1.x release.
We currently have an AOO415 branch at
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/branches/AOO415/ ; this branch
is a copy of AOO414 (that resulted in OpenOffice 4.1.4). The AOO415
branch will result in a release ONLY if we have some important bug fixes
to release and trunk is not ready yet. No new features, even small
enhancements, are added to it. No commits to AOO415 happen without
appropriate mailing list discussions (dev or security, depending on cases).
Trunk is where all development happens. It will be branched for a new
release (like, an AOO420 branch - name still provisional) when the code
is mature: beta or even RC. Until then, we simply keep working on trunk
as we are doing now.
In case we need to commit to a branch, any changes are still committed
to trunk first and then merged to branches using SVN merge in all
situations when this is possible (i.e., when there are no merge
conflicts). The mergeinfo for AOO414 and AOO415 isn't clear, so we'll
have to make sure that trunk contains all fixes done there (or
equivalent in case of conflicts) and, done that, we commit to AOO415
only if:
1. The fix is important and agreed upon on the relevant list
2. The commit is done with "svn merge" starting from a trunk commit
This will ensure that we can shift the focus to trunk while still
keeping a branch that remains ready for a quick release if needed. If we
are never in this situation, the next release will be from the current
trunk and AOO415 will never result in a release.
Regards,
Andrea.
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