On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 14:55 -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:32 +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
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Also, it sounds as if there's an argument being made that *everyone* should pitch in to get 2.9 beta out the door *instead* of committing Zope 2 feature work and the delayed branching is the manifestation of "legislation" that aims to make this happen.
Yup. You figured it out.
I'm not sure it's healthy to legislate this.
I'm not sure either, but we have to try something.
There are people who have no burning desire to see a 2.9 go out the door within the next few weeks, but OTOH they are very willing to commit some valuable feature work right now for an eventual 2.10 release and due to the freeze, they haven't done so (and may never do so if not now, given the volunteer-ness of their efforts).
OK, then there will be less for the people who are willing to fix bugs to work on later.
How can we accomodate those people in the future?
They can always work on a development branch.
IMO, we should try not to discourage contribution and so we should branch regardless of the state of the trunk within, say, two weeks of freeze. Does that sound reasonable for future releases?
Not to me. Jim