On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:09:56AM +0800, John Lato wrote:
What I would like to see are more patch-level bugfix releases. I suspect the reason we don't have more is that making a release is a lot of work. So, Ian, what needs to happen to make more frequent patch releases feasible?
Well, * actually making a release takes time * I assume that you also want more patches merged from the HEAD, rather than just putting intermediate releases out, in which case merging those patches also takes time. And most of the small fixes already get merged, so you'd be looking at merging bigger changes which are more likely to require resolving conflicts, and so take even more time so basically to make more releases we'd need to spend less time doing other stuff (or for someone else to look after the branch). Bigger changes, and especially changes that need altering for the stable branch, are also more likely to introduce bugs. Thanks Ian