[mythtv] 0.9 Road Map Sugestion

[Cliff Draper]

From: Andy Davidoff <dert at pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:24:19 -0500
> It makes more sense to me to simply test the CVS more broadly during the
> feature freeze preceding the release.  Call 'em release candidates if you
> like; the point is that the issue here is testing, not change control.

Release candidates are a fine enough idea, but there are a lot of
people who will not try something until it has been "released".
Either way there will be bugs found after a release has been made that
people will want fixed.  The question then becomes should they wait
for the next release (for instance 0.9) or should there be a maintence
release started (for instance 0.8.1).  If you look at big serious
projects (and surely MythTV is becoming one), you'll always see
maintenance releases (the Linux kernel and Mozilla are good
examples).  Whether maintenance code changes are done on a branch in
CVS or the trunk is an implementation detail.

Anyway, I was figuring that if support for maintenance of 0.8 turns
out to be nonexistant, that the user community will step in and
keep a bunch of patches and make it's own 0.8.1 if need be.

Cliff Draper    Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
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