Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> I agree with John -- I think the documentation effort should be focused on
> the trunk.  Now that we have (apparently) such a stable 0.91.3, hopefully
> the maintenance branch will be much less frequently modified anyway.
>  Theoretically, we should only run into merge conflicts related to
> docstrings if the docstrings on the maintenance branch are themselves
> edited.  If we're just going to be doing bugfixes on the branch, that seems
> unlikely.

Up to know, we've been adding features and bugs on the branch and then
merging them in.  Going forward, I think we should just focus on
bug-fixes on the branch and mostly implement a feature-freeze, which
will promote stability and encourage people who want the new stuff
onto the trunk.  We don't have to be fanatical about this -- if there
is a great feature we can put in w/o compromising stability, that's
fine, but I think our default should be bug-fixes only.

JDH