[mythtv] "stable" tag proposal

[Eggert Thorlacius]

On 22.3.2005, at 17:45, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Eggert Thorlacius wrote:
>
>> I feel like my question suffered a hostile takeover from another 
>> thread :-)  So in an attempt to get back to the original topic: does 
>> anyone think that a weekly "stable" tag would be a good idea?
>
> Not necessarily.  Abritrarily marking a particular point in time as 
> "stable" is probably not effective.  I think the other proposals in 
> the thread about branching out the release line and applying critical 
> patches to it would give a stable branch without the risk of the 
> stable tag applying to something not really stable.  As it stands, 
> mythtv CVS is very stable a great percentange of the time.  I run CVS 
> all the time in my house and have really no issues with it related to 
> comitted patches.  Then again, I watch the commit list, keep up on the 
> dev discussion, and know when something got checked in that is likely 
> to break things.

I agree that branching would be a lot better, but my suggestion was 
aimed at increasing (preceived) stability for users with practially no 
overhead for the developers.  It was not meant to be a fool-proof 
guaranteed-to-be-stable strategy.  However, if everyone thinks it is a 
dumb idea, I don't really care.  I'm personally quite happy with the 
way things are now.  It was just a suggestion.

Eggert