Re: API review for 1.11; do we need to mark new APIs as experimental?

2018-09-14 Thread Julian Foad
Julian Foad wrote: > Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> To be concrete, I propose that we have exactly two kinds of public APIs: >> >> [[[ >> - Standard public APIs are supported through the end of the major >> release line (1.x, 2.x, etc) they appear in. >> >> - Experimental public APIs are named svn_x_*

Re: 1.11 release preparation

2018-09-14 Thread Julian Foad
The 1.11 release notes: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.11.html now contain everything I think they need to, including very brief descriptions of the most notable items from CHANGES. *Very* brief, I'm telling you, in some cases. Can anybody review it and/or expand any sectio

Re: API review for 1.11; do we need to mark new APIs as experimental?

2018-09-14 Thread Julian Foad
Hi Daniel. Your argument makes sense. Daniel Shahaf wrote: > To be concrete, I propose that we have exactly two kinds of public APIs: > > [[[ > - Standard public APIs are supported through the end of the major > release line (1.x, 2.x, etc) they appear in. > > - Experimental public APIs are na

Re: API review for 1.11; do we need to mark new APIs as experimental?

2018-09-14 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Julian Foad wrote on Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 09:44:47 +0100: > Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Julian Foad wrote: > >> We recently decided that only APIs released in an LTS release will be > >> subject to our compatibility guarantees. As 1.11 is not an LTS release, > >> the above APIs will not be subject t

Re: Suggestion: linkify revnums and issues in the CHANGES file

2018-09-14 Thread Branko Čibej
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, 22:23 Branko Čibej, wrote: > On 13.09.2018 13:08, Branko Čibej wrote: > > On 13.09.2018 13:01, Stefan Sperling wrote: > >> It should not be too hard to automate the process. The release.py > >> script already has some commands which spit out HTML snippets for > >> the news pa

Re: Shelfing

2018-09-14 Thread Julian Foad
Stefan Kueng wrote on 2018-09-13: > Hi Julian, > > Since svn 1.11 is soon to be released, I've switched my TSVN wc now to > the svn 1.11.x branch. And apart from a few standard svn API's getting > new versions (which won't be a problem to implement), the shelving API's > have changed a lot. And