Re: [forum] A strawman proposal for X.org & XFree86.org

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris@www.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

>> > The most common solution to this problem seems to be maintaining seperate
>> > branches for seperate needs - Current vs Stable in many projects, 2.2 vs. 2.4 vs 2.5
>> > in the Linux kernel world, etc.  The proposed "standard" branch vs XFree86 branch
>> > is just another way of naming them, and a slightly different way of managing them.
>> > Perhaps simply doing stable, current, and maybe experimental branches is a simpler
>> > path.
>> 
>> Here are some differences between the usual solution and the
>> SSI-maintained branch:
>> 
>>  - In the usual model, maintainers of a module own that module on both
>>    stable and devel branches of said module.
>> 
>>  - Stable branches are bugfixes-only. Feature backports are evil,
>
>What about bugfixes and new card support ?

It would be very nice to release "point releases" every 2-4
months which contain only bug fixes, minor enhancements, and new
card support.  That leaves major new features and enhancements 
for major new releases.

This would allow new hardware support, bugfixes that weren't
known and/or didn't get fixed before the major release went gold 
to get to the masses of users much faster.  The amount of effort 
should be minimal to do this, and could be handled by 1 or 2 
volunteers, or perhaps several working together.



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Mike A. Harris