[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3.2 maintenance

[Tres Seaver]

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Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Friday 08 September 2006 04:12, yuppie wrote:
>> Are there good reasons why these changes were not backported?
>>
>> I volunteer to backport some fixes I'm missing in Zope 3.2, but that's
>> no general solution for keeping the current stable branch maintained.
> 
> The short answer is: We are a bit sloppy. I always develop against the trunk, 
> so when I fix an issue, I do not event think about porting it back to another 
> release, other when one is imminent, like Zope 3.3 now. I think most other 
> Zope 3 developers are the same.

I consider this practice unacceptable for work on an allegedly
ready-for-production package.  The Zope Development Process document [1]
states:

  When you check in a bug fix, you almost always need to:

    * Check in the fix on the current release branch
    * Note the fix in the /doc/CHANGES.txt on the current release branch
    * Merge the fix to the trunk to be sure its fixed for the next
      feature release

Only "feature work" should be done primarily on the trunk.

[1] http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Subversion/ZopeDevelopmentProcess

Tres.
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