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

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:10:47AM +0100, Daniel Sjölie wrote:
> 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, 

Go ahead. Set one up at SF or somewhere else. 

> give anyone who has got a patch into cvs and wants to have it write
> access and see what happens...

Maybe chaos maybe not. Maybe there will someone emerge who organizes
this, maybe not. I would like to see such an experiment happen.

> If it all goes down the drain I don't think anything was lost,
> right?

Only time.

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

        Raimar
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