Alex Ionescu wrote:
Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
We're at the 2 month period since our last release. Is it not time to branch now and chase some more publicity
If Alex meets his 1st December deadline for User-Mode networking, I propose a 0.2.9 branch then.
Any thoughts?
Hi Ged,
I told you on IRC, and you seemed to ignore what I was telling you...so I'll say it publically.
I haven't 'ignored' what you were telling me. I've never even spoken to you about this in IRC. In fact I only started thinking it was time for a release this morning. If you've spoken to me about something related this this, I've either forgotten or missed what you said. I generally don't purposely ignore people.
Just because I finish the CODE on December 1st doesn't mean it's ready to be used.
I didn't say that it would be ready to use. Your blog says "Finish User-Mode Networking for ReactOS. Deadline: Dec 1st." which I assumed meant 'finish'. I was simply looking for a branch date, and that seemed an ideal time.
I've said it numerous times (and even posted on my blog) that it will probably only be usable in HEAD after around December 14th. And after that I still have kernel-mode fixes planned for afd.sys, which go well beyond into January. If you branch 0.2.9 now, it won't be a networking release (again), and will offer little to the users.
I know 0.2.9 isn't going to be the networking release. I mentioned it could be a networking preview release as I assumed your sockets lib might be in some way usable, due to the 'finish' you used to describe what was happening on 1st Dec. Now I know it won't be doesn't change the fact that I think we need to branch. 1st Dec still sounds good to me if everyone is in agreement. I agree with Ge on the branch often way of doing things, preferably every 2 months.
Ged.