Jeff Garland wrote:
The bottleneck I see is the regression testers. Right now Thomas needs them to keep running against 1.34 for final patches he's adding in. Going forward, I believe we will need significant time and energy from the regression runners as we test the subversion switchover. What I'd like to see happen is that instead of going back to main branch after Thomas is done we swap the regression testers over to the 1.35 branch immediately. The folks testing main can be the first beta-testers for subversion switchover.
The problem with this scheme - from a library developer point of view - is that one cannot experiment with new features since nobody is testing HEAD. One possible outcome is then for 1.35 to become a de-facto HEAD and absorb most of the new development.