[Freeciv-Dev] Re: It is feature freeze time

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Ross W. Wetmore wrote:
> The sensible thing for the release beta is to spin off a branch
> at feature freeze, and only allow bugfixes on that branch. The
> regular CVS mainline can continue as the development branch.
>
> This sort of process management would probably result in a lot
> less apologizing and general irritation all round - especially
> that resulting from perceptions of the arbitrary favouritism.
>
> This also means you can continue beta fixing as long as you need
> to get the thing stable without pressure from developers or
> losing those you have, so there are benefits on both sides.

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Jason Short wrote:
> I'd like to again suggest the use of CVS branches to minimize the
> downtime from a feature freeze.

This has been up before... Actually, I remember suggesting this myself
earlier. But I'm not sure about this.

I want people here to make an effort to debug what we have now so that we
can ship it. It is embarrasing to ship something with lots of bugs, and
judging from comments from seasoned players on the irc channel, the
development branch _is_ buggy.

Branching off a stable branch may be a good idea. That way we can very
easily make bugfix releases, if we find that necessary. But I don't think
we should do so at least not until we've managed to ship our first beta.

Until then let's do some collective bughunting. Perhaps we should ape
after the gnomes, and stage our very own irc bugfest... or whatever.

But that's just what I think right now, and I may change my mind, and you
may change my mind, and Raimar, Mike and Tony probably have wildly
different opinions.

Yours sleepily,
Per

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