[spambayes-dev] Feature freeze & branch

[Richie Hindle]

[Tony]
> All of this makes quite a while before new features are added.  What about
> opening a cvs branch for 1.1 that we can merge back in after 1.0 is
> released, which isn't feature frozen?  Any objections?  Better ideas?

[Jeremy]
> In the Zope world, we create a branch once the beta release occurs.  Any
> bug fixing on the road to a final release occurs on a branch.  That
> leaves the head free for development while the bugs are fixed in the
> beta cycle.  If there are lots of new features people are eager to work
> on, it may be easier to use the branch this way.

+1

This is how we do things too (almost).  The release branch is created as
soon as we think we're ready for a release, and the release candidate is
taken from the branch.

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Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com