Re: Branching 1.4?

[herman vierendeels <..hidden..>]

fine for me
thanks
Herman

2014-03-19 23:58 GMT+01:00 Erik Huelsmann <..hidden..>:
> Hi,
>
>
> Over the past months, we have been stabilizing the 1.4 release on trunk.
> Lots of stabilization has happened so far. Working with 1.4 last week to
> close Efficito's books, some more bugs were uncovered in payments (and
> fixed), but all in all, bug reports are diminishing. That's the reason I'd
> like to propose we branch 1.4 now.
>
> Branching 1.4 now doesn't mean we think it's done right now. However,
> branching would mean - as far as I'm concerned - all of the following:
>
>  * We want to separate further stabilization from potentially destabilizing
> work
>  * We call 1.4 feature complete and only backport fixes to 1.4 and 1.3 for
> functionality that's already there
>  * We want to start considering things we commit to 1.4 with extra care now,
> ensuring that every commit adds to 1.4's stability
>
>
> This would mean that any functionality that's not currently in trunk, which
> we'd want to make available to 1.4, will have to be placed in add-ons.
>
> Another reason to make this step, is because I noted that we're seeing
> regressions caused within the 1.3 series on newer 1.3 releases. This means
> to me that the 1.3 line is starting to get end-of-life as in that it can't
> be further fixed without breaking existing functionality. To that extent, it
> seems to be time to make sure we get to the release of 1.4 (and work on
> 1.5), freeing us of some of the code base that's now causing us problems and
> regressions.
>
>
> What are your comments?
>
> --
> Bye,
>
> Erik.
>
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