9 Aug
2007
9 Aug
'07
11:38 p.m.
After more thinking and talking to Ludovic here's another proposal
which I think is even better:
* We rollback the patch
* We don't have a new iteration for 1.1, i.e. we still deliver it on
time for the 3rd of September
* Instead just after 1.1M4 is released we create a branch called
XWIKI_1_1 and we work on the 1.1RC1 and 1.1RC2 on that branch
* Whenever we fix stuff on that branch we also backport them on trunk
* The trunk becomes 1.2-SNAPSHOT
* Artem commits his stuff on the trunk
This is much better because:
1) It allows us to keep our schedule
2) We are not blocked and we can start working on 1.2 immediatly and
do all sort of dangerous things there (within reasons of course and
still with much testing!!)
3) Actually even if we introduce Artem's patch on 1.1M5 it would
still have been dangerous for the whole 1.1 version
The only downside (which is minor IMO compared to the advantages) is
that we have to backport RC1 and RC2 changes to the trunk. But that's
only for less than a month.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
On Aug 8, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi,
We've just committed the patch for XWIKI-1459 yesterday. However we
may need to rollback it.
Let me explain the situation:
1) It's a big and dangerous patch
2) The Curriki project is currently building on top of XWiki trunk
and they're doing some important release soon.
3) They understand that using XWiki trunk is risky and they're
going to branch off xwiki trunk real soon (I heard it's planned for
next week)
4) They have some test server and it seems the recent commit broke
a few things. No investigations done yet.
As a consequence, they're asking us if we could rollback that patch
and release 1.1M4 without it so that they can branch at 1.1M4. We
can then apply the patch after.
The problem is that 1.1M4 was supposed to be our last release with
new features and 1.1M5/M6 were supposed to be 1.1RC1/RC2 till the
final release planned for the 3rd of September.
I don't think we'll be able to release a good 1.1 version if we
only have one release for hunting down bug fixes. I also think
Curriki is right in that committing such a big change one or 2 days
before a release is asking for trouble...
Thus I'd like to propose the following:
A) We rollback the patch and release 1.1M4 without it
B) We shift the final 1.1 release by 15 days - New date: 17th of
September. We add one release: 1.1M5 and then 1.1RC1 and 1.1RC2
C) We add this patch in 1.1M5. However we don't generally allow any
other important change unless there's a good reason. I.e. we
consider 1.1M5 almost like a RC except for this patch
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
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