[mythtv] 0.9 Road Map Sugestion

[John Hurliman]

I think it makes sense to have point releases for Myth. Every once in a 
while when the CVS tree is deemed "stable" and there are several new 
bugfixes or features just package it into a 0.8.x release.

John Hurliman

Cliff Draper wrote:

>From: Andy Davidoff <dert at pobox.com>
>Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:24:19 -0500
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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