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.