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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
October 8, 2009 18:41
Subject:
Re: future of maint
Message ID:
20091009014122.GA1803@cancer.codesimply.com
* Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> [2009-10-08T18:48:32]
> I believe that maint-5.10 in its current form is unsustainable
> (or to put it another way, I'm not prepared to sustain it in its current
> form, and I doubt that anyone else would be stupid enough to), so I'd like
> to start a debate about its future.
Like Jesse, I've been noodling around with an email on the subject, though I
don't think I'd reached 90% completion.
This is a topic that was discussed at length by a bunch of us in San Jose this
year and resulted in this diff:
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/7f4ffa9dba4691a2cd3285cfb3fd76f6f6bd661b
The hope at the time was something like this:
* new features will happen in feature branches from blead
* they'll get landed as they're ready
* landing will slow as an appointed stable release approaches
* maint-5.x will be branched from blead upon release
* only critical fixes will happen in maint
* meanwhile, blead continues along
As for build toolchain changes, if stable releases happen much more frequently
(every two years was bandied about) I wonder how often fixes for toolchain
breakage will still be needed. If so, there's no reason more maint releases
can't be cut.
Everyone who was sitting around talking about p5 development problems seemed to
agree that maint as it stood was too heavy and needed to stop being a yolk
around p5p's neck.
There were a number of other questions, like how do things transition from
unstable to testing, whether or not those are two branches or just a phase of
development in the lifecycle of blead, etc.
Mostly, though, I do think maint should stop working the way it does.
--
rjbs
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