Re: [Audacity-devel] We should create a 2.0 branch

[Michael C. <mc...@gm...>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Markus Meyer <me...@me...> wrote:
> Leland schrieb:
>> So, I'm thinking we should create the 2.0 branch now, continue to commit
>> changes to HEAD and only after everyone confirms a specific change
>> should it be applied to the 2.0 branch.
>>
> Sorry, but I'm a strong -1 for creating a 2.0 branch. Branching will
> just split the crowd of developers into two parts again, the one who
> work on releasing 2.0 and the other implementing shiny new features. It
> puts down the motivation further to work on bugfixes. Also, as Vaughan
> said, a 2.0 release is still not anywhere near, so this will just create
> a branch which, on release date, will be much more outdated than necessary.
>
> Instead we should concentrate on getting 2.0 out the door NOW.

As an alternative to branching we could do the release on dec. 1,
(calling it whatever,) and HOLD the feature freeze on for another
several weeks, only allowing bugfixes and responses to feedback from
the community and release the next version soon after.

I know this sounds similar to the release candidate idea.

Michael


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