Re: Confused about the branches

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>  On 29/02/2008, at 10:04 AM, Emmanuel Venisse wrote:
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>  > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Brett Porter <brett@...>
>  > wrote:
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>  >>
>  >> On 29/02/2008, at 9:52 AM, Emmanuel Venisse wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> why 1.1.x?
>  >>
>  >> in case there was a bugfix release on 1.1? I thought that was what
>  >> the
>  >> branch was for... maintenance of 1.1.
>  >>
>  >> or is there going to be 2 completely different strands of
>  >> development?
>  >
>  >
>  > I thought to do 1.x in the branch instead of only maintenance in
>  > 1.1.xbecause I don't know how many time we'll need  for the  first
>  > 2.0 release. User will probably need some new small feature before the
>  > 2.0release and not only maintenance.
>
>  With the roadmap discussion recently, I thought it was going to be an
>  incremental move towards 2.0 on trunk - 1.2 will have some parts and
>  refactorings, 1.3, 1.4 and so on. I'm not sure why there would need to
>  be two streams of development? I think there's a real danger of
>  getting lost in the 2.0 trap (c.f. Maven 1.0, Maven 2.0 and Maven 2.1 :)
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>  I'm actually keen to do a couple of small things myself and get a
>  release out:
>  - a few small bug fixes, like the lost change sets for some builds
>  - better error handling
>  - switch to a Jetty runtime without the plexus appserver so we can use
>  jetty 6
>  - add a call to svn info --xml to check whether to do an svn update to
>  speed up working copy updates
>
>  Just stuff I see from running vmbuild and the maven zone.
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>  I think that and a couple of other refactorings that are being
>  discussed on here would make a good 1.2 in the next couple of months.
>  WDYT?
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>  - Brett
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>  Brett Porter
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