Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Mesa trunk / 5.0

[Brian P. <br...@tu...>]

Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Brian Paul wrote:
> 
>>
>> The Mesa CVS trunk is now targetted to be the 5.0 release.  Only bug 
>> fixes
>> should be checked in.  In about a week I plan to release 5.0 with any 
>> fixes
>> for bugs in 4.1.
>>
>> At that point I'll create a mesa_5_0_branch which will be for 5.0.1, 
>> 5.0.2,
>> etc. which will just be bug-fix releases.  The trunk will then be 
>> targetted
>> for Mesa 5.1 - new features, overhauls, etc.  This follows the pattern 
>> we've
>> been using for the past couple of years now.
>>
>> Actually, I suppose I could make the mesa_5_0_branch at any time, 
>> allowing
>> us to start new development on the trunk immediately.  If anyone's 
>> anxious
>> to do that, let me know.
> 
> 
> It's probably more in the spirit of how these things are "supposed" to 
> work, but I don't think it matters drastically one way or another.

Right.  Delaying the creation of mesa_5_0_branch will simply save us
some effort in checking in fixes to two different branches.

I'm already sitting on a small pile of changes for 5.1.

-Brian