th stable (Re: gimp 2.8.0 rc1, gimp plugins)

Bartosz Świątek shadzik at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 21:38:02 CEST 2012


W dniu 20 kwietnia 2012 21:28 użytkownik Andrzej Zawadzki
<zawadaa at gmail.com> napisał:
> On 20.04.2012 20:57, Caleb Maclennan wrote:
>>>
>>> well... if you need more stable line, then why not to create one with
>>> appropriate
>>> branch in CVS? of course, the problem is that somebody needs to maintain
>>> that,
>>> which I believe is full time job and lack of resources causes the stable
>>> branch
>>> to freeze. therefore, imho, it is not good idea to link CVS HEAD with
>>> stable
>>> line - and that was the result of similar discussions in the past if i
>>> reckon well.
>>>
>>> if you need more reassurance, then what about introducing TH-STABLE tag
>>> and
>>> sending packages to builders only when they are tagged with above?
>>
>> A tag scheme like that could of course work. Again I would ask ask
>> how, other than different tag names, this is different from the status
>> quo. Please answer this: what do you see as the advantage to having an
>> RC release tagged HEAD instead of DEVEL? How does merging DEVEL into
>> HEAD before it's going to be a candidate for FTP make life any
>> different for you? What's the motivation? I honestly don't understand
>> what you're trying to accomplish and thus I feel like you're
>> presenting a solution to something that isn't a problem and thereby
>> introducing a problem. Does that make sense?
>
> True, I don't understand this problem either...

Let me please quote our chief of everything... "you don't have to".

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