On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:36 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>wrote:
> On 02/14/2013 12:21 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > Philip indicated yesterday on IRC that all local move features > > he wanted to get to implemented for 1.8 now have code written. > > So now we're all waiting for the "local moves" yellow light on > > roadmap.html to turn green. > > Awesome! Congratulations, Philip! > Hooray! > > I think now is the time where we should either start cutting 1.8 alpha > > releases from trunk, or branch 1.8 and then start issuing alpha releases > > from the branch. In either case we should ask the community to build > > binaries and ask our user base to help test them. (I don't expect alpha > > builds to be used in IDEs, however many users could try to update > > refactored working copies with the command line client and report back. > > This would also be a good test for the 'svn upgrade' code.) > > > > What do you all think? > > As you said, every day we delay branching 1.8 is a day in which real > stabilizing work can get done without the cost of additional process. On > the other hand, that's also a day in which potentially de-stabilizing work > can get done without focused additional eyes and process to help catch the > problems until later. Seems like a toss-up to me. > > The benefits that I see to branching now are that 1) it sends the signal to > our users that we're serious about actually releasing something, and 2) it > call us all into agreement about what that something will be as we mutually > agree to hold off on slipping in new features and resolve to stabilize and > ultimately ship what we have. > +1 > As such -- and assuming no one else has a feature waiting in the wings and > can make a compelling case for further delaying the release to accommodate > it -- I lean towards branching ASAP. And yes, +1 on delivering alphas as > soon as the branch is cut! > Apart from the usual bug fixes, I only plan to add a few bells and whistles to fsfs-stats. But that is very low risk work wrt. svn stability. One last bit: BDB support. I hope I will finally be able to run a few "realistic" performance tests as suggested by you (Apache, merge operations). We should reach consensus on this before cutting the first beta. -- Stefan^2. -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: * http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download *
