When to branch off 2.9 (was: Re: 2.8.7 and 2.9 release plan)

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

How about keeping the "master always stable" motto and porting in a branch?
Cherry picking the results once they are stable?

On 24 November 2014 at 00:41, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 23. November 2014, 23:05:02 schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek:
>> On 23 November 2014 at 22:14, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>
> wrote:
>> > So, anyone opposing delaying the branching until the port will start?
>>
>> Honestly, I think technical means wouldn't stop everyone from working
>> of features instead of porting. Global agreement to the plan would
>> make the trick. So I would be in favour of branching as usual. Unless
>> I misunderstood something.
>
> Could also be me who is misunderstanding things :)
>
> So far I assume that porting will happen directly in master, given that the
> port to Qt5/KF5 is the main target of 3.0. So the day that porting will start
> master is not really usable for feature development anyway, and it will take
> some weeks (also ideally new features should be done again only once porting
> is mainly done).
>
> So it does not really make sense to start new features in master (also to not
> conflict with the start of the port).
> So the idea was that early branching would only complicate things, as in the
> weeks until the port starts only fixes would be done, which then would have to
> be backward/forward-ported all the time, for no good reason.
>
> Those who want to work on features would still be able to do so all the time
> anyway, in some branch (and surely based on before-port-start while the port
> is going-on)
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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