On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:59:34PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:49:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'm a little frustrated with the rash of FTBFSes and other problems > > (like the reopening of #215831) that I can't detect on my PowerPC, > > because they occur in code architecture-specific to i386 or SPARC. > > > > I am consequently beginning to see the wisdom in doing what many other > > projects (other than XFree86 itself) do: > > > > * Don't release off the trunk. > > * Merge only known-working fixes onto a release branch. > > * Tag releases from the branch, not the trunk. > > > > Comments? If I don't get any, I'll go ahead and do it, but don't let > > that stop you from expressing your assent, if you feel it. :) > > Sounds good to me. Are you planning on arch-specific branches as a sort > of top-level thing? At this point, I don't think that's necessary. I just don't want untested patches merged onto the release branch, so I'm not going to merge anything I can't test. Anyone alarmed by this (i810/i830/i845/i865 users...) might want to ask for SVN commit access. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the Debian GNU/Linux | police, Daddy?" branden@debian.org | "Because we use vi, son. They use http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | emacs."
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