[sakai2-tcc] [maint] Maintenance Branches: Enhancement vs Bug Merges

[Noah Botimer]

There is validity in this concern but we should also recognize that people and institutions aren't just putty to be used where and how so deemed. We should remember that we should be encouraging people to work on discussed and spoken priorities, but that encouragement is different than outright direction. Inspiration is a fleeting thing and being disciplined for it doesn't feel very good.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Seth Theriault wrote:

> Anthony Whyte wrote:
> 
>> Moreover, encouraging schools to remain on older 
>> branches because we might sprinkle them occasionally with new 
>> stuff while at the same time neglecting to merge fixes into 
>> these branches in a timely manner is not, under current 
>> conditions, in the Community interest (have a look in Jira at 
>> the current backlog of 2.6.x and 2.7.x closed/resolved issues 
>> that need merging).
> 
> I think this is an important point. If we don't have the time and 
> people to manage bug fixes, how do we have the time and people 
> for features/enhancements if bug fixes are supposedly a priority?
> 
> Seth
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