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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Let's make Source Mage not suck!
  • Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:11:43 -0600

Alexander Tsamutali wrote:
>> I'd like to have a freeze on the grimoire when we come up to release
>> time. No commits to test until we've finished fixing the bugs that have
>> to be fixed. That's it. No exceptions. "Real" software processes work
>> this way. You've a feature freeze and then you work on the release.
>> Anything spiffy or unneccesary is omitted, or put off until later. We
>> don't do that. We're pretty lax.
>
> That's exactly what i proposed here:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2007-January/015995.html
> Can we adopt such process?

Close to what I'm thinking of. Except let's not just limit it to QA
leads or anything. Anyone can commit to stable-rc at this time, perhaps
they operate through submitting patches through the leads, or a group of
volunteers, so that it's guaranteed to be peer-reviewed. But we
completely lock down the test grimoire, it's frozen. stable-rc gets it's
bugs fixed, and the release is pushed out to stable.

>
>> On the other end of the spectrum, we could simply drop stable-rc and
>> stable, since no one works on them anyway. I don't like this idea, but
>> it would be the opposite of what I described in the previous paragraph.
>
> We cannot drop stable releases, never.
>

I know, this was just showing the opposite end of the spectrum.


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David Kowis

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