On 04/26/2011 10:48 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
I'd like to propose that 2.x release are only about GUI improvements and
code cleanup. IOW 2.x should keep the file format unchanged.
How are you going to do that? No format change? This is not going to
happen.
Why not? Why should be rush in changing the file format? I think there is a
lot that be can be done without changing the file format.
this would be showstopper for bibliography improvements and so on.
i dont see a single reason why should we stop bumping fileformat.
thats why we have stable branch.
That's also why time between releases are sooo long... 2 or 3 releases
every six without file format changes sounds very appealing to the user
that I am. To the developer, this means that his pet feature will arrive
sooner to the users.
The file format change is _the_ reason why people are kept back with
older version of LyX. 2 or 3 years time is OK for a file format change
but 6 months is obviously not.
I'd like also to propose that we switch to git now for 2.1 and than svn
is kept only for 2.0.x bug fixing... At this point we should have one
branch per new GUI feature or code cleanup; this branch will be merged
only if complete. This will help 2.x to remain stable despite the
incremental improvements.
We have to balance what git will bring vs. the destabilization of 'normal'
developers.
Most "active" developers (I am not) are already using git AFAIK...
i dont think you are right (highly depends on Richard) if we count it on the
number of commits.
I am (almost) sure Richard played with git or mercurial already.
i use git personally but i'm not so excited about the change
because of loosing linear numbering of commits in trunk.
That's just cosmetics. If we use branching correctly, bug fixing will be
attached to a specific tag or to a branch merge.
As for the "destabilization" aspect, that's why I propose to keep svn for
2.0.x...
afaic the main problem was "who" will do the relevant administrative changes
on server, from setup, to connection into trac ond so on. i can't remember
single man who wanted to do it.
True. I am just good at proposal... I hope to get some of the newcomers
interested in joining in for the administrative part as well. As for the
git server, gitorious.org is just fine; no need to maintain that.
Abdel.
