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[Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl AT gmail.com>]

> I am rather fond of Grand Solutions and have had little time to fix
> bugs
> lately, so I feel somewhat hypocritical voicing an opinion like this.
> But I
> think this all boils down to unpleasantness. I don't think splitting
> the main
> grimoire into parts is a solution rather than a creative attempt to
> circumvent some harsh realities.
>
> But let's face it, there's absolutely nothing else wrong with stable
> than
> buggyness. Some of our best practices may not be the best possible
> ones, but
> that's not stopping anyone from fixing bugs.

Ok, i can agree that splitting grimoire into two part can lead to some  
problems. This thread was started to discuss our problems. So the  
another one was pointed by sandalle: too much attention is spent on  
test grimoire. Maybe we can change the process of stable release a  
little. Currently test and stable grimoires live in parallel and many  
use test. Example of how we can change this (6 month cycle):

* new grimoire created and populated with latest versions of spells,  
general development (3 month)
* bug fixing, version updates are not recommended (2 month)
* freeze, version updates prohibited, integrations handled by grimoire,  
QA leads (1 month)

or in schematic form:

current:

test -> test -> test -> test ->
        |
        stable-rc -> stable -> support;

proposed:

test -> stable-rc -> stable; test -> ...
                     |
                     support;
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Alexander Tsamutali