From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 00:10:49 EDT
On Wed, 8 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Blue Lizard <webmaster@dofty.zzn.com> wrote: >
> Greetings.
> > I would like to apply for the position of stable
> > branch maintainer.
> > Nothing would please me more than to contribute to
> > abisource to the best
> > of my ability, and I believe that this is a position
> > I could handle. I
> > think, though, my feelings differ from Martin's in
> > one area. "Cajoling
> > developers into helping backports of
> > features/bugfixes if needed" (MS)
> > -- I would expect very few if any feature backports.
> > Possibly small
> > impexp items, but not too much in the way of
> > features.
>
> I absolutely agree with this sentiment.
> The whole premise of a stable version is that it
> stays stable, in fact becomes *more* stable.
> In general no new features should be admitted.
> In practice, very minor new features which consist of
> only a few lines could go in but nothing capable of
> introducing new bugs that would require debugging
> both versions.
>
I was specifically thinking og the bonobo work which I really would like
to be in the stable branch too. It doesn't affect the operation of the
rest of the application. Or if does, the effect is obvious that it is easy
to correct.
Bonobo embedding is already in the stable branch but the last couple of
days work from Dom, which really advanced things a lot, aren't there yet.
Cheers
Martin
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