[Qgis-developer] Re: QGIS 1.0.3 is next...

[Alex Mandel]

I was under the impression that the next unstable release would be 1.2
aka bugfixes for unstable are always in the trunk. While 1.0.3 is the
next stable as those bugfixes when possible are simply applied to the
stable version.

In fact the 1.1 branch is only a branch for packaging reasons.

Then again this is my thinking from an outside view,
Alex

William Kyngesburye wrote:
> So, just to clarify the plan, future releases of 1.1 unstable will have
> revision version numbers?  ie 1.1.1, 1.1.2,...
> 
> And the next stable version would be 1.2?
> 
> Are you defining some alternating stable/dev version number system, like
> GRASS does?  ie major.even = stable, major.odd = dev.
> 
> On May 14, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> 
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>> Hi
>>
>> Maxim Dubinin wrote:
>>> JEF> I wonder who actually is interested in 1.0.
>>>
>>> not me ;)
>>>
>>
>> Personally I think we should continue with two branches.
>>
>> a) it makes outsiders to the project see that we care about stability -
>> in the past a lot of people complained about new features coming out all
>> the time and no one taking care of just bug fixing and stabilising one
>> version. I believe Paolo was one who was vocal about this too. Others
>> offlist have also expressed a desire to have 'an unmoving long term
>> maintained QGIS that they can provide support services around'.
>>
>> b) it doesn't take that much effort to maintain it
>>
>> c) It establishes a good working practice / culture that we can be used
>> to as our project matures
>>
>> c) sooner or later someone will commit something in trunk that breaks
>> all kinds of stuff and at least we will be able to say 'its unstable
>> version, if you care about stability use the stable release'
>>
>> and lastly
>>
>> d) when we get to a point where we want to do a long interval between
>> unstable releases e.g. because of major refactoring, we still will have
>> a version that we can easily keep current with minor fixes
>>
>>
>> So for me getting rid of the stable branch is a -1 vote.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
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> All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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