On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote: > On 1 April 2014 23:17, Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> wrote: >> It's proving to be impossible to move forward with the alpha2 release. >> >> Let's officially say that alpha and beta releases only require 3 votes >> (platform doesn't matter). This does not apply to release candidates. > Hi Ben, > > I'm against this release policy change: > 1. Good support of Windows platform is one of considerable advantages > of Subversion against other open-source version contol systems. > > Windows has very different behavior on things that Subversion relies > on: filename case-sensitivity, behavior of deleting/moving > files/directories with open handles and locked files. > > That's why 3+3 release policy is very important for Subversion project.
Maybe the following would be a good compromise: for alpha and beta releases we require 3 votes, of which minimum 1 Windows and minimum 1 Unix. Then we're certain that it at least compiles and runs on one variant of both platforms. It would be a bit embarrassing, even for alphas, if the first user that tries it doesn't get it to compile, and it appears noone in the dev community actually tried it. -- Johan
