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

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Reinier Post wrote:
> > 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.

        Well, you could always set up something similar to FreecivAC on 
SourceForge. (Or you could add the patches directly to FreecivAC, I 
guess - we're not too concerned about code stability at present - we 
just want to test the stuff.) The only problem for the long term is that 
it's hard to keep it in sync with Freeciv proper; if the patches can't be 
easily separated out, then it's hard to tell the difference between 
FreecivAC patches and Freeciv patches. You'd have similar problems with 
any unstable branch, though.

        Ben
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