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

[Andrzej Zawadzki]

On 20.04.2012 21:38, Bartosz Świątek wrote:
> 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".
Smartass? ;-)
Bartoszu you need to be more consistent :-P
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.pld.devel.polish/34668
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Andrzej