Re: [WWdevel] What branch to use for development

[Sam H. <sh...@ma...>]

on 05/13/2007 11:48 AM Davide P. Cervone said the following:

> This is really for Sam, I guess, but I thought we should all know the  
> answer:  what branch of the CVS tree should we be using for  
> development work these days?  I've been putting jsMath changes in  
> HEAD, and letting Sam deal with backports to wherever they are  
> supposed to really go, but I'm not sure of that is the way it is  
> supposed to work.

That's how it's supposed to work. You can give me a hint in the CVS
commit message if you think something should be backported, otherwise
I'll use my own judgment or ask you.

> Last summer (if I remember right) we had a development branch and a  
> stable branch, and there was a fairly complicated means of updating  
> these, but after the release of 2.3.1 (I think) that seemed to go  
> away.  Sam, can up refresh us on the protocol for making changes?  I  
> have some fairly substantial updates that I want to make to the  
> MathObjects internals, and I'd like to do it in the safest way  
> possible.  These should not change the author or end-user experience,  
> but the internals will undergo some adjustments that may take some  
> shaking down.  I'm hoping to streamline a few things in preparation  
> for the conference this summer, and make some changes based on a  
> better understanding of things now that MathObjects have been around  
> for a while.

HEAD is for bleeding-edge development -- perfect for large architectural
changes or disruptive user-visible changes. rel-2-3-dev is the 2.3.x
development branch, which should only get bug fixes and small feature
non-disruptive enhancements.

Pretty soon I'm going to create rel-2-4-dev from the current HEAD. I
think that should probably happen before you start with the MathObjects
work. No need to wait on that though if you want to get started, I can
branch off of some arbitrary point, before you started with that. Then
we can merge the MathObjects changes back in after things have calmed down.
-sam