[mythtv-users] MythTV Development Pattern

[Jesse Guardiani]

Stuart Larson wrote:
>> I know I've got no say in the matter, as I haven't contributed a single
>> line of code, but I think it
>> would be nice to have a stable and development branch of MythTV. The
>> stability/bug fixes go into
>> the old branch, the new features go into the devel branch.
>>
>> Lots of large projects use this structure. I think MythTV has become
>> large enough and popular
>> enough to need it too.
>>
>> I think the problem is that it requires additional administrative
>> overhead. Patches need to be backported
>> on a regular basis, etc.
>>     
>
> Isn't release-0-19-fixes branches referred to as "stable?"  From the
> svn.mythtv.org/trac page:
>
> If you're looking for anonymous subversion access, use the following
> commands to grab the latest code:
>
> svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv
> svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythplugins
> svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/myththemes
>
> If you'd like to get the stable 0.19 branch, do this instead:
>
> svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/mythtv
> svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/mythplugins
> svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/myththemes
>   

I didn't realize that existed. So, can we expect bug fix releases for 
the 0.19 branch then?

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net