[Merkaartor] Release?

[Roeland Douma]

Well branching after the release won't allow new stuff to be added to the 
trunk for 2 weeks. Branching before the release makes more since then the 
devs that are working on new/experimental stuff can just continue.

Roeland

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 14:04:08 Chris Browet wrote:
> That makes sense.
>
> Let's branch AFTER the release, then.
>
> - Chris -
>
> 2008/7/9 Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>:
> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Chris Browet wrote:
> > > The timeline seems perfect.
> > > I also propose to create a Merkaartor-0.11 branch in svn.
> > > Rationale:
> > > 1) to not freeze the trunk for 2 weeks
> > > 2) to have a 'reference' 0.11
> > > 3) to be able to do bug-fixing on 0.11 and be able to do point releases
> >
> > (0.11.1, 0.11.2,...) as needed, while still having a stable base rather
> > than SVN.
> >
> > Its always good to have such a break time, because all developers tend to
> > fix bugs when not allowed to checkin new stuff :-) And keeping private
> > modifications in local SVN copy is not so hard.
> >
> > Branching should then be done directly after the release to have a bugfix
> > branch :-)
> >
> > Ciao
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