[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Managing Long-Term Changes

[Daniel Sjölie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2001-12-21 10:42:52, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Reinier Post wrote:
> > > How do ya'll manage long-term changes?  I am getting the impression
> > > that a bunch of patches are sitting somewhere outside of the
> > > repository and if you work on that section, you apply the patches.
> >
> > If only it were that organized ...
> 
> To be fair, we do have a bugtracking system that we send patches ready for
> inclusion to. It is at "bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". The maintainer
> processes this queue of patches for inclusion, so nothing sent there gets
> lost. But it is a slow process.
> 
> > Yes.  There seems to be a consensus on the list to create an 'unstable'
> > branch, but the discussion stopped before all the details were clear.
> 
> I believe it stopped short because nobody volunteered to maintain or
> manage that branch. But I'm not sure we need a "manager" for such a
> branch... why not just give the most frequent patchers write access and
> sort out problems as they arise. Perhaps finding someone who can be
> "release manager" when that starts becoming an issue. I think the biggest
> danger isn't introducing bugs, but turning off developers, and that has
> happened a lot the last year(s).

I don't think we need an official manager to try this out... Let's just
create an unstable repository, give anyone who has got a patch into cvs
and wants to have it write access and see what happens... If it all goes
down the drain I don't think anything was lost, right?

I'd like to be one of those with write access...

/Daniel

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