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Re: [wp-hackers] 120-day release cycle


On 2 Oct 2006, at 18:14, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

___/ On Mon 02 Oct 2006 12:46:54 BST, [ Matt Mullenweg ] wrote : \___

Elliotte Harold wrote:
It's better to set up separate branches in the source repository so the crazy fun wild development can run in parallel with the testing and polishing.

We would continue to create branches for major releases to release bugfix and security releases as needed.

Unless I misinterpreted something, I think Elliotte was referring to the need for constant vigorous development where testing milestones are reached and future extension carries on simultaneously (not only bugfixes for older supported releases). A bit like stable and unstable Debian, or even the Kernel Mm tree that is maintained by Andrew Morton. I suppose that Fedora and RHEL would be another example... that in itself signals the need for multiple patchmasters or maintainers, I think.

That's what I think Elliotte meant as well. I'd throw myself behind breaking it up into three branches (like Debian), unstable, testing and stable; however, implementing slightly differently to Debian: so, we move unstable to testing once we have the feature freeze (then starting a new unstable branch), with testing replacing stable at the end of the 4 month release cycle.


- Geoffrey Sneddon.
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