[mapguide-psc] RE: [mapguide-dev] 1.1.x branch

Paul Spencer pspencer at dmsolutions.ca
Mon Oct 30 14:58:00 EST 2006


good by me :)

On 30-Oct-06, at 2:03 PM, Tom Fukushima wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Yes, I dislike the merge overhead as well, but it should not be a big
> pain as long as there are no more reorgs of the code.  I do have some
> guys who are working on things that won't fit in the 1.1.x timeline  
> and
> so the branch will allow them to continue working.  Are you ok with  
> the
> branch happening today/tomorrow or would you like some more lead  
> time on
> this one.
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Spencer (External)
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 6:26 PM
> To: psc at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapguide-psc] RE: [mapguide-dev] 1.1.x branch
>
> Jason, my feeling is that is just to allow for 1.2 features.  My
> experience in most of the projects I've been involved in is that it is
> desirable to branch as late as possible to reduce the overhead of
> porting bug fixes between branches.  MapServer certainly works this  
> way.
>
> Part of the reason for this, though, was the use of cvs (as opposed to
> svn), which made it very difficult to branch and merge.  Svn is
> substantially different in this respect and I expect to see this  
> aspect
> of projects change as svn is used more and more.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 27-Oct-06, at 4:27 PM, Jason Birch wrote:
>
>> PSC,
>>
>> When this branch is created, does that mean that we go into feature
>> freeze (in prep for Beta/RC releases), or is it just to allow 1.2
>> features to start working their way into the trunk?
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> From: Tom Fukushima [mailto:tom.fukushima at autodesk.com]
>> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 13:20
>> To: dev at mapguide.osgeo.org
>> Subject: [mapguide-dev] 1.1.x branch
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to target next Monday (or Tuesday) for when we create a
>> 1.1.x branch off of the trunk.  This branch will hold all current
>> submissions to the trunk to date.  I will be enumerating the list of
>> things that are in 1.1.x to date in a subsequent email.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>
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