On 26-4-2011 16:46, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >> I'm not advocating to have 3 layers in general. > > ok, Abdel is :) > > if i understand correctly there are 3 proposals: > > 1) 3 trees: > - agile (gui things) > - trunk (fileformat) > - stable > > 2) 2 trees, 3 trees in freze transitions > > 3) current scheme with sooner alpha. > > 1 is more rapid, less comfortable for stable minded people more comfortable > for > new feature oriented minds. not to be forgotten we probably need 3 persons > on management.
> > 2 is little bit slower, still during the freeze will be little lower > interest in stabilizing the tree, because the activity in 3rd one. I'm not sure about this as there also might be lower interest in developing LyX if you may only fix bugs you don't know how to fix. We have two branches anyway. (We've had that discussion before). > > 3 could happen if we have more directed managment than it was for current > release from the very beginning. I think 3 implies 2, otherwise the development will be stalled too often. So, we do 3, because that will imply both 2 and 3, and everyone will be happy. The remaining question is in what frequency you want to release new-feature-releases and file-format changes releases. Everyone agrees 2 years (is too long, and some think that 2/3 months (1.6.x release cycle) is too short. And whether these two releases should be synchronous (i.e. like it is now). > > pavel Vincent
