[postgis-users] CVS Stability

[Daniel Morissette]

I think a branch would be a good idea and wouldn't take much more than
30 seconds to manage.  Contrary to what Norm suggested initially, I
would suggest creating a 0.7 stable branch (i.e. cvs tag -b branch-0.7),
and the main trunk being used for core developments which will
eventually become 0.8.

This way if you need to make urgent fixes to 0.7.5 and roll out 0.7.6
than this can be done in the stable 0.7 branch in CVS and doesn't
interfere with work in the main trunk.  You also don't have to care
about merging both branches at the end (which could be a pain) as long
as the developers who commit fixes to the 0.7 stable branch also make
sure that the same issue is addressed in the main trunk.  This is what
we've done with MapServer for the last few releases, it takes very
little time to manage and it works great.

My 0.02$

Daniel



Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> Sorry, Norman, I'm taking the cowards way out.
> I have released a 0.7.5, which holds all the bug fixes since 0.7.4.
> This will have to hold everyone together until the 0.8 release. I do
> not anticipate the delay from now until 0.8 should be all that long
> (one month max) and we really do not have enough parallel development
> (or a sufficiently well defined release cycle) to warrant running a
> separate branch for the stable tree at this time. When the time comes
> for the bottom-up rewrite which Dave keeps talking about, we will fork
> a stable branch.
> So, my warning stands: use the CVS version only if you're in an
> experimental mood.
> Paul
> 
> On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 02:48 PM, Norman Vine wrote:
> 
> > Paul Ramsey writes:
> >>
> >> To repeat: until the next numbered release (0.8) is out, do not use
> >> the
> >> CVS snapshots unless you are willing to work with experimental and
> >> tempermental code.
> >
> > Why not make a branch for the new GEOS enabled PostGIS
> > and then merge the branch back in once we have the GEOS
> > issues ironed out ?
> >
> > http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#Branches
> >
> > This way the CVS PostGIS remains 'solid'
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Norman
> >
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