Re: Stable vs Current (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha)

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > Hmm... I don't think other people want to roll in the alpha
> > patches into the stable tree (with good reason). I think we are best off
> > with just an alpha only version of pgsql via patches on 6.5.1, and leave
> > integration of the alpha patches into the full pgsql source tree for 6.6.
> > My two cents.
>
> We are going to be rolling a v6.5.2, and .3, and .4 ... basically, until
> v6.6 is released, v6.5.x is our stable release, and, from a commercial
> perspective, has to be maintained.

I understand that. It is just that from what time I have spent
looking at the alpha patches, they do a lot more than just "maintenance".
So while there may indeed by 6.5.2, .3, etc.. releases, none of them
should include the alpha patches in the source tree (instead have a new
set of "after release" alpha specific patches, or stick them in contrib).
I don't want to put the alpha patches in until after I have a chance to
review them (for compatiblity to other platforms), which will probably
take a few weeks to a few months.

> I don't expect anyone working on -current to maintain it, I'm going to
> work on it, but I do hope that if someone fixes a bug in -current that
> exists in -stable, and that can be *easily* fixed, that we get the fix in
> there also...

Sounds good... Only the alpha fixes don't fall under the heading
of "*easily* fixed in -stable", so they ought to stay out of there for
now.
Otherwise your seperation of stable from current trees is a good
idea, and I now have a better understanding of development and release of
pgsql, especially in relation to the alpha patches. Thanks.

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