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

[Noah Botimer]

I see this all as a revolving conversation of "we should" and "somebody should" versus "we shouldn't" and "nobody should".

That is, I hope we can all identify work that A) needs to be done and B) people are willing to do. I hope we can encourage people to do A while allowing them to do B. Formulating a community position in terms of "may" and "should" is healthier than "may not" in a volunteer organization.

The way to fix the backlog is to allow people to fix it and get to work. And, yes, I think this *should* happen as/before features get attention. But I'm not personally willing to hold adopter happiness hostage to get there.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:22 PM, csev wrote:

> I can really go either way on this issue and J-F makes very good points.
> 
> I just sent my Sakai 2.9 plans around to the dev list and at some level, if the Sakai 2.9 work turns out nicely and Sakai 2.9 is seen as a real positive step in the viability of Sakai in the marketplace (which I hope happens), then we would be well served to hold the tasty bits for Sakai 2.9 to get folks to come forward.
> 
> Again - I am switching sides on this because I truly see both sides.  I personally am happy either way.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
> 
>> Unless we want to get back to 2.4 time when it was a bad idea to use 
>> official releases, I think we should concentrate on delivering 
>> maintenance releases of 2.7 first instead of just merging changes into 
>> the maintenance branch.
>> 
>> 2.7.1 is 4 months old and there are currently 103 issues with a 2.7.2 
>> fix version and 2.7.x Status of Resolved or Closed.
>> 
>> Before 2.7.2 is released and we're able to deal with the backlog of bug 
>> fixes, I think it's a bad idea to merge anything than bug fixes.
>> 
>> - J-F
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