Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Dov Feldstern wrote: > > We create the 1.5.x branch *now*, but don't release yet. > > That depends on how Juergen will manage the "stable" series. I > personally would like that we continue trunk development on the 1.5 > series instead of opening a new 1.5.x branch. I would like to propose > that we alternate between bug-fixing release and feature release.
I don't see the advantage of this. I'd rather do a 1.5.x branch and let people do some more adventourous development (or new features) in trunk. If XML is too risky, that could be developped further in Lars' XML branch until people think it's ready for merging (as we did with unicode). > Something like this: > > 1.5.0: released at T0 > 1.5.1: T1=T0+1month, bug fixes only, small patches (<100 lines?) Yes. > 1.5.2: T2=T1+2/3month, feature release, big patch and cleanup allowed Probably yes. Depends on what remains from the 1.5.1 bugfixing and what bug reports we have. Main focus is _always_ on stability. New features should therefore be very well tested and straightforward. > 1.5.3: T3=T2+1month, bug fixes only, small patches (<100 lines?) > etc. That means that the even releases are supposed to be less stable than the odd ones? I don't like this. > Of course, no format change will be allowed in the 1.5.x series. Of course not. > During this time the XML branch continues to be developed and, when more > or less finished, it becomes the new development branch (or we merge it > to trunk). > > My rationale is that we have to be realistic with the XML change: not > everybody will contribute. If we switch trunk to XML immediately non > interested developers will get stalled because of the transition. Therefore the stabilizing in the xml branch. And after the merge, all developpers are simply forced to deal (and help) with XML. I think that worked out quite well in the unicode case. > The added benefit will be that a lot of long standing bug can and will > be fixed in the "stable" branch. That should be done nevertheless. > If nobody agrees with me then I agree with Dov that we should branch > 1.5.x now. It's up to José, but I think we should just fix the remeining lyx2lyx bugs (and maybe consider Dov's patches) and tag 1.5.0 for release. Jürgen > Abdel.
