[oe] [RFC] New stable branch (and maybe a new process?)

[Philip Balister]

On 07/20/2010 04:40 AM, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:09, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 20-07-10 09:01, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>  From the silence on this topic I gather that the interest to create a new branch
>>> or change the process is quite low.
>>
>> I have an interest in a new stable branch, but no interest in changing
>> the process.
>
> Fair enough. Lets handle the issues seperately for now.
>
>> The biggest problem is the .dev is halfway into big changes, e.g.
>> halfway into new-style staging,
>
> Agreed. While I think we are more then halfway through with this. Recipes are
> left but most of the active maintained are already done. NO numbers but my
> feeling here.
>
>> halfway into packaged-staging rework, halfway into nativesdk, etc.
>
> These both are ongoing for quite some time already. I have to admit that I lost
> track where they stand and what is still outstanding.
>
> So your suggestion is to wait until all three are done?

We should identify the work in progress in dev and decide which ones we 
should finish before creating a new staging. There is no sense making a 
new stable branch and then creating a major diversion from dev that will 
make maintaining both in parallel for as long as possible difficult.

Philip