[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: 2.7.1 roadmap

[Sebastian Mendel]

Marc Delisle schrieb:
> Michal Čihař a écrit :
>> Hi
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:15:12 -0500
>> Marc Delisle <Marc.Delisle at cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I think Sebastian's idea is to say that release 2.8.1 does not have 
>>> more features than 2.8.0, only bugfixes. Critical bugfixes can still 
>>> be named with -plX.
>>
>> Okay, this sounds reasonable for me. But maybe then we could abandon
>> those -plX as it just complicates versioning scheme.
>>
> 
> So it's time to clarify the branch names.
> 
> HEAD would contain the new features + obviously all the bug fixes.
> 
> RELEASE_2_8_0 would contain ... 2.8.0, what a surprise!
> 
> Instead of having QA_2_8_0, we could name this branch QA_2_8. Into this 
> one, we merge all the fixes that apply to the 2.8 series. When we feel 
> it's ready, we release 2.8.1-rc1 from it (or directly 2.8.1 ?)
> 
> My only question is: what happens if we need to release something 
> quickly? I guess we could start from QA_2_8 but then it would contain 
> all the accumulated fixes for this branch. This is a case where a
> 2.8.0-pl1 (a quick patch applied to RELEASE_2_8_0) would be handy.

like here:

http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/cvsgraph/
http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/cvstree/
http://www.cvs-ext.com/graph.gif