Re: [Rails-devel] Rails 1.x

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

It's my intention to keep maintaining and possibly even extending Rails 1.x,
until it has become absolutely clear to everyone that Rails 2.0 is a worthy
successor and Rails 1.x has become a dead end.  I'm undecided about what I'm
going to do after that point.

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 7:02 AM
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Shares and certificates (was: Further 1835
testing)
> 
> Erik:
> A general remark first regarding the Rails 2.0 development:
> 
> It is already quite often not possible to automatic (=merge without manual
> intervention) rebase the 2.0 branch onto the Rails 1.x master as the
changes
> to the base elements (states, moves, portfolios) are too substantial. So I
can
> only merge commits one-by-one, which takes some effort.
> 
> Most likely I will not be able (auto-)merge any of your changes regarding
> shares into the 2.0 branch. And due to the nature of changes it will be
easier
> to implement the changes directly instead of the trying to merge the 1.x
> commits.
> 
> So from my point of view I recommend to keep your changes minimal in able
> to fix 1835. However your decision will mainly depend on how long you
> expect to keep developing in Rails 1.x.
> 
> Unfortunately I am currently not able to give a clear commitment when
Rails
> 2.0 will run without errors.
> Of the design/refactoring changes for the initial 2.0 I think 90% are in
place,
> however from the testing/bug-hunting I guess only 10% are done, but the
> latter figure is difficult to predict.
> 
> I will provide more feedback on your proposal later this weekend.
> 
> Stefan