[ros-dev] Next release

[Alex Ionescu]

Ged Murphy wrote:

> Alex Ionescu wrote:
>
>> Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
>>
>>> We're at the 2 month period since our last release. Is it not time 
>>> to branch now and chase some more publicity
>>>
>>> If Alex meets his 1st December deadline for User-Mode networking, I 
>>> propose a 0.2.9 branch then.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Ged,
>>
>> I told you on IRC, and you seemed to ignore what I was telling 
>> you...so I'll say it publically.
>
>
> I haven't 'ignored' what you were telling me. I've never even spoken 
> to you about this in IRC. In fact I only started thinking it was time 
> for a release this morning. If you've spoken to me about something 
> related this this, I've either forgotten or missed what you said. I 
> generally don't purposely ignore people.
>
>> Just because I finish the CODE on December 1st doesn't mean it's 
>> ready to be used. 
>
>
> I didn't say that it would be ready to use. Your blog says "Finish 
> User-Mode Networking for ReactOS. Deadline: Dec 1st." which I assumed 
> meant 'finish'.  I was simply looking for a branch date, and that 
> seemed an ideal time.

Are you delibaretely skipping:

"Commit and test the User-Mode Networking branch, with appropriate 
afd.sys changes. Deadline: Dec 14th."?

>
>> I've said it numerous times (and even posted on my blog) that it will 
>> probably only be usable in HEAD after around December 14th. And after 
>> that I still have kernel-mode fixes planned for afd.sys, which go 
>> well beyond into January. If you branch 0.2.9 now, it won't be a 
>> networking release (again), and will offer little to the users.
>
>
> I know 0.2.9 isn't going to be the networking release. I mentioned it 
> could be a networking preview release as I assumed your sockets lib 
> might be in some way usable, due to the 'finish' you used to describe 
> what was happening on 1st Dec. Now I know it won't be doesn't change 
> the fact that I think we need to branch. 1st Dec still sounds good to 
> me if everyone is in agreement.

I agree.

> I agree with Ge on the branch often way of doing things, preferably 
> every 2 months.

I agree too. Just don't:
1) Make it depend on me
2) Call it a networking preview. It's not.

>
> Ged.