On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:20:02AM +0000, Peter Bortas @ Pike developers forum wrote:
Discuss on list first. Oh, and I'd better say that refering to a discussion from more than a week ago is not valid.
what if no discussion is happening? should that be taken as acceptance for 7.7?
Not really. Ping the discussion.
7.8 alpha 1 will the cut today, Monday 1500CEST. After that there is a fair chance 7.8/7.9 will be split off unless grubba and mast tells me they have a landslide of patches still to come.
the split off has not happened yet or did i miss it?
Nope, we decided to postpone it while grubba cleaned up some stuff. Then I barely got out the alpha before going on a 1v vacation.
with more questions coming up on what to commit i think having the split would be nice so that we can commit to 7.9 and then discuss whether something is good enough for 7.7/7.8 and backport.
No, that doesn't work. We have to be pretty sure there will be no major backports right after release.
doing the split doesn't even necesarily mean that 7.7 needs to move to 7.8, it could stay 7.7 until it's ready for release, but given pikes tradition that not every x.y.z is a release i guess it would also be fine if 7.8.0 is an alpha and the real release is 7.8.9 or some other value of z.
Sure, the release is unlikely to be called 7.8.0. That is not holding of a split. I'll be talking to grubba and marcus about it later today.