Re: We Want Quality

> Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > Considering branches don't work too nicely with CVS, halting > > development for long periods of time (1-2 weeks) would, > > de-facto, hurt the development of PHP. We should definitely > > implement a feature freeze, but a code freeze is simply not > > possible IMO. > > What problems do you see with branches in CVS? > > One thing I did with the 3.1 release of jakarta-tomcat was to create a > branch for the release, and allowed mainline development to continue > unimpeded on the main branch. Those that wished for a particular fix to go > into the release had to take an explicit, overt action. This isn't a bad idea. My problems with branches in the past have always been with respect to merging branches. If you branch without ever needing to merge the changes back into the main branch it would probably be ok. However, people would then have to remember to commit their fixes to both branches. -Rasmus