Reminder: Tagging beta6 this weekend

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 04.11.09 15:50:21, David Nolden wrote:
> Am Dienstag 03 November 2009 09:30:44 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > Hmm, I'm reluctant to do this now, apparently people have already
> > downloaded the beta and its "up there" since more than a day now. Also
> > the next beta isn't far away anyway - only three weeks from now.
> Hmm that's a pity, especially when considering that ubuntu seems to ship 
> kdevelop4 betas as 'stable' now. This beta might be a step back in stability 
> due to that crash, which gives me a bad feeling.

Not to me, kubuntu is just a broken distro, I'm not caring any bit about
what they do until their track record gets a lot better. 

> I've found another such crash and fixed it in r1044721. It is very easy to 
> reproduce. Just take the following exemplary code snippet:
> "
> void test(int q = 3);
> 
> void test(int q)
> {
> }
> "
> 
> And add another parameter before the 'q' in the definition -> Bang
> 
> I hope that's it with signature-assistant regressions (I should be more 
> careful when merging code from bug-reports). Generally I think in future we 
> should again do a mini-freeze before betas, to make sure that they really have 
> better quality than random snapshots. Or maybe we should 'tag' the beta as a 
> branch, and then 2 weeks later merge all important fixes that happened in 
> meantime before releasing it.

I don't like branching for beta's - at least not with svn. The problem
really is/was that we started releasing beta's without having a hard
feature freeze. i.e. we should've continued with alpha's until right now -
or monthly snapshots similar to the KDE snapshots. 

> How to proceed now I'm not sure, but I think this one is a show stopper, what 
> do you think?

Its too late simply (dot announcement is online already). And no thats not
a showstopper for a beta IMHO.

Andreas

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