policy change related to kdelibs snapshots
Adam Treat
treat at kde.org
Mon Jul 10 01:50:20 BST 2006
On Sunday 09 July 2006 8:19 pm, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> On 7/9/06, Benjamin Meyer <ben at meyerhome.net> wrote:
> > Why not simply drop the snapshot libs? Any major changes should have
> > their own branch like liveui current has. When big changes are
> > intigrated it can be announced ahead of time that things will be broken
> > for a day or two (some porting and testing should have already been
> > done). For any minor changes, the guys who commit to libs should port
> > the rest of kde first.
>
> Yeah, this is how we do development where I work and it's very
> effective. Trunk is always compilable, bugfixes and minor changes can
> go in, but anything sweeping happens in a "feature branch" before
> getting merged.
>
> SVN makes it cheap, might as well take advantage of it.
This is what I'd prefer. Dump snapshot.
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