1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

[Dave Airlie]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 03:48 +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:19:57AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> > XSERVER IS FROZEN.  PLEASE DON'T COMMIT ANYTHING MAJOR, OR ANY API
> > BREAKS, WITHOUT CHECKING WITH ME AND/OR PETER FIRST.
> > 
> > 1.6.99.900 will be rolled some time over the weekend, with .901 to
> > follow fairly shortly after that.  We'll branch the server when it
> > makes sense -- probably pretty close to .901 or .902.
> 
> How about branching NOW, if you are afraid of people breaking master?
> 
> Branching beats stalling. That was kinda the idea behind CVS:
> *Concurrent* Versions System. What do you think, are we up to such
> revolutionary concepts yet?...

Branching early means having to backport any fixes to master that go by
we also lose the fact that people might test master, whereas the testing
of branches drops of majorly we've noticed.

If someone has some life changing work they need to push, well they
can do it in a branch until master open up again.

Dave.

> 
> -antrik-
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