[Digikam-devel] preparing the future : creating a new 0.9.0 branch ?

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Mercredi 2 Novembre 2005 21:13, Tom Albers a écrit :
> Op dinsdag 01 november 2005 10:43, schreef Gilles Caulier:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm currently working on DImage support in digiKam and
> > DIgikamImagePlugins. It's a large task to do, and i'm not sure to put it
> > in 0.8.1. From last Renchi tarball available, there are any tasks to do:
> >
> > - Finish DImage implementation (PNG/PNM support in 16/bits/color/pixels)
> > - Finish metat data support (IPTC on TIFF files)
> > - Add RAW files support.
> > - Finish to port Image Editor core using DImage.
> > - Porting all algorithms used in image plugin (core and
> > DigikamImagePlugins) - Porting digikam/libs/filters.
> >
> > Question : we can create a new 0.9.0 branch dedicaced to DImage support.
> > I'm not sure if this is the best solution because we need to maintain 2
> > branchs at the same time (trunk: 0.8.x and branch: 0.9.0). Also, merging
> > 0.9.0 branch to trunk will not trivial (dixit when Tom have merged 0.8.0
> > branch to trunk (:=))))
> >
> > What do you think about ?
>
> I think merging is really, really bad, so I think that we should do the
> following:
>
> - branch trunk to the stable branch
ok

> - start converting to trunk
you want mean DImage support ?

> - do bugfixing in trunk and immediatly backport those to the stable branch.
ok

>
> Releases in the 0.8 series come from that brach and 0.9 (?) will be trunk.
yes, 0.9.0. Using stable branch prevent any merging to the future.

>
> I am not in favor of doing this before we have doen some bugfixing in 0.8
> to prevent backporting a lot.

I'm agree. This is will done after 0.8.0 release date.

Gilles