[josm-dev] Stabilization ends

Vincent Privat vincent.privat at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 22:44:32 GMT 2011


I'm fixing #7162 right now.

2011/12/18 Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>

> On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Simon Legner wrote:
>
>  I know this delay is one of the drawbacks of our current development model
>>>
>> Git or Mercurial as VCS could easily deal with a stable master branch,
>> development/feature branches and dealing with hot fixes (see for example
>> [1]).
>>
>> I don't know whether it is an option to migrate to another VCS (maybe in
>> the corse of [2]) …
>>
>
> SVN can do the same (maybe not as good as git, but good enough). It is no
> technical issue. The idea behind current model is to prevent the "may
> others care for bugs, I care for new stuff" mentality of many projects I
> know. If a developer wants to go on with new stuff he needs to make sure
> that at end of stabilization phase the software really is stable. For JOSM
> that seems to work pretty good (or we simply have the best developers of
> the world :-)
>
> So as long as the team is small enough that the current model works I
> prefer it over others. If the number of developers gets 10 times as large I
> happily switch to new methods required to handle this ;-)
>
>
> Ciao
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