Re: Proposed plan for releases and for merging WidgetPlayground

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 15:21, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:15:36PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> > Here's a proposed plan for the next part of Conglomerate development:
> > 
> > nsh has been hard at work and has put together a patch that can be
> > applied to HEAD that merges in the changes from the WidgetPlayground
> > branch.  The patch can be found here; I owe him beer:
> > http://csboard.berlios.de/cong/changes.tar.gz
> > 
> > It's time that we "bit the bullet" and stabilised this new
> > implementation of the editor widget; I believe the code is a much saner
> > design than the current one.
> > 
> > So my proposal is:  to do another tarball release (0.7.16), containing
> > all of the last-minute fixes that should have gone into 0.7.15, and
> > other small fixes that we can get it by a deadline.
> > 
> > I'm going away for this weekend and intend to have no contact with
> > computers (which should be good for my sanity), so I plan for this
> > release to happen halfway through next week.  Let's invent a rough
> > deadline of Tuesday night for people wanting to get changes in (though I
> > reserve the right to do last-minute bugfixing stuff when I make the
> > release)
> > 
> > After 0.7.16 is released, I'll created a 0_7_16 branch to hold the old
> > widget implementation, and commit nsh's patch into HEAD.
> > 
> > The WidgetPlayground code is much more stable when it comes to loading
> > files, but has some bugs with editing them, and with resizing windows.
> > My hope (and the plan) is that by having this code in HEAD we'll be
> > forced to fix these bugs (scary!) but the benefit is that it will be
> > much easier for developers to get at the code (having it in a branch has
> > made the barrier for entry too high, I think).
> > 
> > What does everyone think?
> 
> I, surely not everyone, think that releasing "0.7.15 plus minor glitches"
> as "0.7.16", does not repair the harm that was done.
> 
> However, "0.7.16" will prevent 0.7.15 from doing more harm.
> 
> Enough ranting.
> 
> Commit the great patch from Nickolay V. Shmyrev into HEAD
> a release it as 0.7.16.
> Go for the new widget code  (don't spent time on the old widget code)
> Making a branch for old (current) widget stuff doesn't make sense.

Think of it as an emergency backup plan.  The new code will have a
different set of bugs from the old cocde, and initially will probably
seem more broken to the average user.

> 
> 
> Geert Stappers
> (who redraw 0.7.15 from Debian  ( waiting for 0.7.16 ))
> 
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