On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:41:48 am Ivan Voras wrote: > (answering out of order) > > On 16/01/2012 23:28, John Kozubik wrote: > > > 2) Having two simultaneous production releases draws focus away from > > both of them, and keeps any release from ever truly maturing. > > This isn't how things work. The -CURRENT always has (and probably always > had and always will have) the focus of developers.
This is not strictly true. At work we are using 8.2-ish, and so right now much of development happens on 8 and has to be forward ported to HEAD. I do think we are cutting stable branches a bit too often and that we could merge features back to older branches more aggressively. SVN had made that much easier (e.g. merging superpages from 8 back to 7). However, it is more work for a developer to merge a change back to 2 or 3 branches (e.g. from HEAD to 9 to 8 to 7). Developers are more willing to merge things back to one or two branches. Right now we have made a design decision to release new X.0 releases (and cut new branches) at a certain frequency (and we aren't even keeping up). We could choose to alter that design and I think we would end up with longer-lived stable branches as a result. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
