On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, David Plans Casal wrote:
May I suggest, that while we consider these issues, we also consider the appointment of a release manager? I know that Tim's work on dev39 is
ow the question is: what will the release manager do when Pd/MSP 0.40 comes out? Because I'm not certain at all what Tim will/would do with a Pd/MSP 0.40 on his hands.
It shouldn't have to come down to being his decision. In a 'normal' FLOSS process, releases don't just 'come out'.
No, I only assumed that the release manager you talked about would manage the release of non-Miller code. From what I know I presume that even if more people organised around devel_0_xx, Miller would still release his own version and not use devel_0_xx.
And then I wonder who would volunteer for merging stuff while not dropping any features from either branch.
My guess : no one.
Tim has almost done that for 37->38, 38->39, but I don't think he'll do that eternally.
Perhaps I'm missing blocks of history here, but it seems to me that it shouldn't be impossible to achieve convention between branches, provided there is an initial setup effort. Count me in, FWIW.
I dunno, if you want to do that, first conquer San Diego -- and I don't mean Carmen here!!!
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