--- On Mon, 2/5/11, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > From: Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> > Subject: Re: Development and Release Model > To: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org > Date: Monday, 2 May, 2011, 14:43 > Richard Heck wrote: > > It's important that we have a culture that promotes > LyX's stability. > > I could not agree more on this. Stability is one of the, if > not the, most > strongest point we have. > > > So I would propose to maintain two versions of > BRANCH_2_0_X, much as the > > release maintainer, under the Vincent-Abdel proposal > (as I understand > > it) would maintain two versions of trunk (the > experimental one and one > > that is more stable). These would be: > branch-20x/stable, which would be > > essentially the existing branch; and > branch-20x/experimental, which > > would be where the new features went first, when they > were deemed ready > > for branch. When they had received sufficient testing > there---I at least > > would use that branch for daily work and would suggest > others do the > > same---then they could be moved to stable and included > in the next release. > > Sounds like a good idea in general, one which might even > strengthen branch's > (i.e., branch-20x/stable's) stability. The only concern I > have is that this > requires that people actively use and test branch (as > opposed to trunk and > released versions). I am not sure if we have enough > (interested) people for > this model, but I would be glad to be proven false.
Well, here is one person for starters. Cheers, Sam > Jürgen >
