Re: We Want Quality
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:20:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: We Want Quality | ||
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I think a "bug fix only" period is the best solution. We should announce
it on php-dev@ and if someone commits something other than a bug fix which
looks reasonably small and correct we revert it.
Andi
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > I think a five day feature freeze would be a good thing. But bug fixes
> > will need to be able to go in during those five days. I can't see us
> > having a frozen tree for five days before the release without adding bug
> > fixes. It just doesn't happen.
>
> Yes, we could allow bug fixes, but we'd need to be really careful which
> bugs we fix and how. I can't count how many times a bug fix spawned
> several other bugs that had to be tracked down and killed. Perhaps, only
> the group should have access to the tree when it's closed to other
> developers.
>
> -Andrei
> * We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. *
>