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.