Re: Scratching the 4.3 branch

On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:54, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I think that given the circumstances, we should scratch the 4.3 branch and > stick to the main branch for this particular release, at least until we're > very close to the release itself. The vast majority of CVS traffic going > on these days is bug fixes anyway, so creating the branch only makes it > more difficult to keep up - you have to keep the two branches in sync. > > Issuing a request for people not to develop new features for a couple of > months (or telling them to develop in some -dev branch), will, in my > opinion, work better than our conventional release process. I'm very > worried about sync problems with 4.3. +1 I think the branch was created way too early. IMHO a release branch should be created at the point where RC1 is ready, 2-3 weeks before the actual release. Edin