[spambayes-dev] 1.0 and beyond

[Anthony Baxter]

Tony Meyer wrote:
> As you might have noticed, Mark & I have put out 1.0rc2.  The plan this time
> is that it'll work flawlessly <wink> and in about a week we'll put the same
> thing together for 1.0 (and so a better job of publicising it as someone
> (Anthony?) suggested a while back).
> 
> As I noted in answer to Skip the HEAD is free for anything that you want to
> do, and the 1.0_release branch should be left alone apart from really major
> bugs or packaging issues, until 1.0 is done.

I would make this statement even stronger - unless you're involved in
the release, you should NOT be touching the 1.0 branch until 1.0 is
out the door.

> Does anyone have a plan after that?  Do we want to keep the 1.0 branch alive
> and copy minor things across to it for a 1.1 release (someday!), or do we
> want 1.1 to have lots of new features and stuff (i.e. the HEAD).

Don't put new features into a 1.0.1 &c release - only include bug fixes.
This saves effort (no wasted effort to backport new features, which will
become harder as the trunk drifts away from the 1.0 branch), and means
that people with 1.0 know that they can safely install 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and
not have it break things. We do this for Python, and the feedback I get
is overwhelmingly positive.

Speaking as a former sysadmin, I'm going to be much happier if I know
that a bugfix release is only a bugfix release.

Anthony


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Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>
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