[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Forking of a stable branch of freeciv / bugfix
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On 28 Aug 2002, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> > > Backporting fixes to stable code is obviously difficult, if you have to
> > > do it in after 2 month of development, and moreover not every bug can be
> > > fixed in an easy way, and moreover new bugs can be introduced by patches
> > > for old ones.
> >
> > What about this alternative: introduce a "gamma" phase. Agree to
> > enter nothing but bugfixes during the first two weeks after a release.
> > If major bugs show up, make a bugfix release.
>
> Yes, the gamma phase can be a good alternative, if the release timeline
> for Freeciv continues to be 1 year between two stable releases.
> Even if this became 6 month, 2 week of gamma phase are worth the work
> involved in doing an eventual fixed release.
Weeks have tendency to become months. The pre-release period of 1.13.0
was already long enough but was the result truly stable? I don't think
so. There were objective reasons for it, like major additions to the
codebase, yes. But two gamma-weeks won't solve such things. A stable
branch is the only sensible solution IMO.
G.
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