On Jun 9, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Pavel wrote:
Sorry to rise the question again, but now that functional testing is about to start, I believe decision on the subject has already been made.
Why do you say this? I don't see the relationship between that functional testing and a decision on bug fix release... ;)
I've prepared a mail for you several days ago but I hadn't sent it so far because I'm not sure about the answer. We take decisions here together and we haven't discussed this yet so this is a good time...
This is indeed an important question. I think this is a community decision and one for the current committers. My personal feeling (I only speak for myself) is currently the following:
* Most xwiki committers will probably want to work and focus on 1.1. I'm also starting to work on 2.0.
* In order for XWiki 1.1 to become even better we need the maximum of users to try 1.1.
* I think 1.1 will stay stable enough for users to migrate to it or at least to try it and migrate if they like it
* Our goal is to increase our automated test suite to reduce the risk of regression and allow users to safely move to any release we do
* We may need 1.0.x releases but that's hard to do as there aren't many active committers
* I discussed this with Sergiu and we think there are some occasions where a bug fix release should be done. One of them is when there are important security issues discovered and fixed
But I guess the real answer is: if a committer wants to do a bug release and is volunteering for leading it, I think everyone would agree. If volunteers like you can/want to contribute to a bug fix releases then I guess the likelihood that it'll happens will be high.
What do other committers think?
Thanks
-Vincent
On 5/29/07, Pavel <pagrus@gmail.com> wrote:Vincent et all,
Now that xwiki is 1.0, are there any plans to have a bugfixing-only branch?
1.1M1 anouncement mentions both bugfixes and new features/changes. While the
former is good for stability, the latter may not be so.
For me as a person who will need to support xwiki installation it is an
important question.
Thanks,
Pavel
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Best regards,
Pavel
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