RE: Patch submission and release policy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harrie Hazewinkel [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> Changelog is generated from the cvs commit messages or is it 
> neccessary
> to do it by hand?? Just wondering, since I thought ChangeLog can be
> generated from CVS itself. (I could be wrong)

The ChangeLog is written by hand. theoreticly it's possible to generate it from the CVS commit messages, but I would still recomend not to do it : writing the ChangeLog by hand forces the developer to submit clearly described patches.

> > Semantics. I don't mind what you call it, as long as we 
> have a stable
> > branch and a development branch.
> 
> Fine, but I would think that you would at least want a different
> branch for for instance the 1.2.x and the 1.3.y 
> product/stable release.

Why would I want to have two "stable" branches ?

> What people should put on their production systems is something tested
> and released as stable. I don't think that people should just take a
> CVS checkout for the production system. Those poeple take a risk where
> a released version should have been tested before release.
> IMHO, that has not much to do with branching.

You're thinking "commercial". sorry - open source doesn't work that way. Testing is done by the users, so if the users will hold for a tested release, one will never appear. we need to get things going now, by declaring the CVS as it is now "stable", package and "release" it.

> Besdies that I intended to say here that we first need to discuss
> how the architecture will be and some of those other things. After
> that we need to decide on the implementation and how to use branches.
> Maybe some things are having very little impact and thus do not need
> a special (own) branch.

I don't see why would we need more then two branches - a stable branch and development HEAD. too much branching will only slow development down. always remember that Kannel is a low visibility project with little commercial support: all development is done as needed by the users of the software. if you make it hard for the developers to develop, you won't have any development done.

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