Re: Making release of gui 1/13/2007

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 29 Dec 2006, at 08:49, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:

> On 12/29/06, Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> > My personal preference is for the dual release strategy ... that way
> > we can publicise ourselves twice as often ...
> > once for each stable release, with a nice list of bugs fixed, and a
> > prominent message to encourage packagers to update the distribution
> > they work with
> > once for each unstable release, with a list of cool new features, and
> > a big message to encourage developers to provide bugfixes/patches
>
>  I think the gnustep-base is stable and mature enough to do so,
>  but gnustep-gui may not be.
>  Many fix to gnustep-gui still break the backward compatibility.
>  So my suggestion is to make it happen for gnustep-base first.
>  Once everything goes smoothly after a couple cycles,
>  it will be pretty easy to do the same thing on gnustep-gui and  
> gnustep-back.

Sorry, I think I caused confusion by raising a second issue  
(maintaining backward abi compatibility) when discussing general  
release policy.  I should have stuck to the point.  Yes, it's  
impractical to attempt to maintain backward compatibility for new  
releases of the gui any time soon.

However, I don't think that is relevant to a general release policy  
of maintaining (and publicising) separate stable/bugfix and unstable/ 
trunk release, and making the stable releases very frequent.