Beman Dawes writes:
At 10:46 AM 4/5/2004, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
Correspondingly, June 21 or so would be a branch-for-release date, by which everything should be in CVS and in the releasable shape.
If past experience is any guide, quite a bit more time is needed between branch-for-release and the actual release.
Supposedly "the releasable shape" would require no additional fixes besides dealing with artifacts of branching itself, if any, but considering that people also need some time to try out release candidate(s), I think you are right. I'll post a detailed release plan for discussion sometime next week.
That being said, we do need to exercise more discipline to ensure changes are committed to CVS well before branch-for-release.
Early branching might help to inforce that, since it's more work for a developer to check in "late" changes. Hmm, the idea is growing on me. -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering