RE: [ros-dev] Freeze the trunk and release

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

David Hinz wrote:

>   At the moment, it looks like the next release will be
> 0.2.9. 
It definitely is going to be 0.2.9. We are no where near ready for 0.3.0
yet.

>   I this is the case, I personally think we should
> branch now 
>  or maybe in a week. 
Why in a week? We've discussed this a few times and the 1st December was
thrown about as a provisional date. I assumed that the release coordinator
was going to branch then, or the TC was going to call for a trunk freeze.

>   But for 0.3.0 I think we should "clean up"
> the trunk i.e. WaxDragon 
>  should call for a feature freeze and we should fix all bugs and work 
>  very hard on the translations,  
On the contrary, it's not a feature freeze we need for 0.3.0. There is
missing functionality to co-inside with the roadmap. The feature freeze will
come when trunk is ready to branch for 0.3.0, or beforehand is the TC deems
the trunk to be 'a mess'  ;)

>   as 0.3.0 is one of our major releases and 
>  will be reviewed by a lot of magazines (if we tell them about this 
>  release...), so it should be one of our best releases. 
I agree, I've already got a few magazines and other features in the pipeline
;)
This is another reason I'm hungry to get 0.3.0 out of the door.

>   Greets,
>  
>  David Hinz 
Ged.





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[David Hinz]

Murphy, Ged (Bolton) schrieb:

> >   But for 0.3.0
> > I think we should "clean up" the trunk i.e. WaxDragon 
> >  should call for a feature freeze and we should fix all bugs and work 
> >  very hard on the translations,  
>  
>  On the contrary, it's not a feature freeze we need for 0.3.0. There is
>  missing functionality to co-inside with the roadmap. The feature freeze will
>  come when trunk is ready to branch for 0.3.0, or beforehand is the TC deems
>  the trunk to be 'a mess'  ;) 
I just thought that 0.3.0 is such a big
release, that a lot of little 
things will be fixed. If we do this in a branch, it would be a lot of 
extra work to port all the improvements back to the trunk, I thought we 
should call for a feature freeze of trunk, maybe for a week or 5 days or 
so, clean everything up, and do a lot of translations.
The reason I would call for a feature freeze is, that it is easier to 
translate something, if the code and maybe the interface of that app 
isn't changed so often. And I think 0.3.0 should at least be completely 
translated into German and French, and at the moment these translations 
are very incomplete...
Anyway, I'm not the one who decides about this, I just wanted to tell 
you the opinion of an advanced user.

Greets,

David Hinz