A stable trunk should be an ongoing battle, not something reserved for release time.
There shouldn't be more than a weeks worth of release work required (the release itself is no more than a few hours work).
Anything which jeopardises this should be done in a branch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often
It's a tried and proven method used in most large open source projects and reactos is no exception
Ged.
From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Olaf Siejka Sent: 11 October 2010 09:14 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS development cycle
I do agree with Wax in general, that any cycle will be ok provided that we can stick to it.
Three month cycle would be (more/less):
- 6 weeks of pure development (and first 4 weeks - release of the x-1 version);
- 6 weeks of stabilising trunk, bugfixing, plus some finishing work on features that will be included in this release;
Seems awfully short
Regards
2010/10/11 Ged Murphy gedmurphy@gmail.com
We tried it at the wrong time, trunk wasn't ready for it.
If you go back over the previous discussions we had on the topic a few years ago, you'll see that what was discussed makes good development sense.
Ged.