Am 16.01.2014 14:47, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
On jeu., 2014-01-16 at 14:22 +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:
Am 16.01.2014 12:17, schrieb Kristján Valur Jónsson:
This is such an obvious question that it probably has been raised before
Oh, only once or twice for every 3.x release so far :)
but anyway:
Why not branch 3.4 earlier than release? That is how big projects are managed nowadays, you create a staging branch early.
I’d suggest branching it off at b3. There is no reason to keep all trunk development frozen just because a particular version is in RC mode.
There's also no reason to not use a personal clone if you want to develop a new feature.
The question is less for us than for occasional contributors who see their patches or feature requests languish on the tracker, and lose interest.
To be honest, most patches and feature requests languish much longer than the beta period, because of lack of manpower and/or interest of a core developer.
And when a core developer gets interested during the beta period, all they need to do is post "Nice patch/idea, let's discuss and commit it after feature freeze". If the contributor is put off by that, well.
Georg