Still hoping for end of week, but maybe Monday. -Alex
On 1/4/12 4:54 PM, "Jeff Tapper" <j...@spoon.as> wrote: > Any idea how long till adobe commits the code? > On Jan 4, 2012 7:44 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> I¹m loving the ideas and energy on this list so far. And so, the subject >> question needs to be answered: What should we (the committers in this >> project) do first? >> >> I recall from the summit that a healthy Apache project releases at least >> every 4 to 6 months, and one of the things an incubator podling has to do >> is cut at least one release so it can show it knows the Apache way of doing >> so. So, while we¹ve got lots of good ideas out there around refactoring >> Flex, lots of those seem like more than a 4 to 6 month project. They >> should certainly get underway, but we also need to make sure we make enough >> useful, short-term fixes to be worthy of a release so we can practice >> making a release. I¹m thinking that means we pick off a bunch of bugs to >> fix, and maybe take a new component or two or three. >> >> To do so without getting de-stabilized by the longer term projects, we >> should agree on a branch strategy. It sounds like many Apache projects >> have multiple branches like: >> -Sandbox: Anything that doesn¹t fall over immediately can go here >> -Unstable: Things that are being polished for release can go here >> -Stable: The release candidate goes here. >> -Released: The latest release. >> >> Long term projects would go in Sandbox and shorter term stuff would go in >> Unstable and get synched to Sandbox if required. >> >> Most of you are volunteers trying to scratch out spare time to make >> contributions, but some of us have all day to work on this stuff. I am >> thinking of splitting time between long-term work and short term work and >> use JIRA to guide what short-term work I do. >> >> So, add your thoughts on branch strategy (especially Apache veterans). >> You can discuss your favorite short-term project if you want, but what >> really matters is whether you¹ll get around to committing it. And of >> course, this is all talk until we get cleared to submit the code and get >> JIRA up and running. >> >> -- >> Alex Harui >> Flex SDK Team >> Adobe Systems, Inc. >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >> -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
