On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 14:51, Hyrum K Wright <hy...@hyrumwright.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:48 AM, C. Michael Pilato > <cmpil...@collab.net>wrote: > >> On 05/23/2011 02:25 PM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> > The outcome of the hackathon was "we'll start alpha releases in June and >> > branch when the blockers are gone" >> >> Hrm... that's not quite what I recall. But then, I remained somewhat >> under-rested for the duration of the trip. :-) >> >> Our discussion of the default ra-dav implementation for 1.7.0 implied that >> there could be open "blocker" issues even after we branch. (Because if any >> of those blockers were serf-ish, that was our signal to restore ra_neon as >> the default.) I hate to fuss over such fine details, but I believe we owe >> it to ourselves to be clear on this general matter of branching. > > > My recollection is that we essentially said that if there are blocking > ra_serf issues when all the other blockers are gone, we'd flip back to > ra_neon for the release. (So in a sense, the ra_serf blockers aren't really > blockers at all.)
Right. All non-serf blockers should be fixed before we branch. IOW, we get as close to a release candidate as possible on trunk. (and if people want to code new features, they should HIGHLY CONSIDER doing that on a branch, for later reintegration). Cheers, -g
