Re: Scratching the 4.3 branch

Since for some reason I didn't get Zeev's original message, I'll just hack in responses here... :) On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 05:01 AM, Derick Rethans wrote:

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, 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.

Two options I see here. Close down CVS HEAD development, and force everyone to work on the branch, or ditch the branch. I don't know how feasible option 1 is. Option 2 is extremely easy to do. The problem though isn't the keeping in sync part. It's the working to clean up bugs, verifying code and functionality parts. Neither option here will deal with that.

Maybe it's time to opening up the php5 module then... people would be able to work on experimental stuff there without messing up the stable module. It might be a psychological thing but I think it's appropriate here.

I disagree with you on this one Derick. Doing this really just skirts the problem around, and doesn't address it until a later date. Here is an option though. Release RC1. We know it's buggy, we know it's got a lot of problems, and we know that we don't know them all. The stigma that snapshots are unstable isn't going to be changed in the next few days, so lets work with that. By releasing RC1 we can have (potentially) a larger test audience working on making the RC2 better as there seems to be less of a stigma against RCs. There is no real reason why we can't go through multiple RCs this time around... other than time. So lets take advantage of that.

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