10/04 snapshot good -rc2 material.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Oct 6 20:17:01 UTC 2008


On Monday 06 October 2008 07:31:09 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:22:32PM +0200, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> >Not sure if I made myself clear, but I was meaning tagging -rc2
> >(i.e., just like the old tag tags/uClibc_0_9_29_rc1 for 0.9.29rc1).
>
> what for?
>
> trunk is in kind of bugfix-only mode ATM and the rc's are extremely
> short lived.

And there are currently a half-dozen forked repositories of uClibc if you 
count NTPL and the psm tree and gentoo and so on.  Adding more is actively 
stupid.

Branching the source control system sends the wrong message.  The attention of 
your developers shouldn't fork into two pools each of half size.  If you 
can't come up with a dot release by applying a simple series of bugfix only 
patches backported from the current development tree, then it's time for a 
new release from the development tree.

Actual _releases_ should be extremely short lived because there should be 
another release coming to obsolete it in a matter of _months_.  That would be 
the "release early, release often" part.  Setting up a repository for 
something that shouldn't be undergoing development does not make sense.

Rob



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