[Opensim-dev] Stable Branch pt III Was: RFC: Changing default script engine to xengine

[Sean Dague]

Kyle Hamilton wrote:
> I wish trunk would be incrementally more useful and incrementally less
> unstable at every revision.  Unfortunately, this is obviously a
> pipe-dream.

The ability to break things in trunk is what lets it evolve so quickly.
 I do realize that everyone wants both "all the features" and "all the
stability" at the same time, but I'm a realist, and that's just not
possible in OpenSim at this point.  We're at least a year out from 1.0
which will start to have that.

> I'd like to see a 'stable' branching system of some kind, and every
> time there's a new stable candidate I'd like to see a diff produced
> and examined for Justin's 2 weeks to see if there's anything that's
> obviously broken between the former stable and the new candidate.
> Once it's determined to be stable enough, it would get committed to
> trunk and a new -stable branch forked from that revision.
> 
> Two downsides to this suggestion is that it means that everyone's
> going to need to become really familiar with the process of re-basing
> their local copy, and everyone's going to need to listen to the
> release coordinator to know when to re-base their locals.  The former
> is a documentation problem (write a page on the wiki to describe how
> to do it); the latter is an announcement problem.  (I'd suggest the
> creation of a new opensim-announce list that only the release
> coordinator(s) can send to, and which has a membership list precisely
> equal to the opensim-dev list?  This would allow the announcements to
> be handled separately, but allow memberships to be handled only by a
> single administration request... but I don't know how good of an idea
> it is.)

The problem with proposing something that causes someone else work, is
it is likely to not happen.  If you are signing up to do a lot of said
work, I applaud you. :)  If you are suggesting others do it... the
suggest is always welcomed, but don't be too surprised if it doesn't
come to fruition.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague / Neas Bade
sdague at gmail.com
http://dague.net


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