metronome mail for Bazaar 2.0 and 1.18

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel пишет:
>> ....
>>> Bazaar's own branches have successfully upgraded to format 2a.
>>> There are two additional fixes in the 1.18 branch post 1.18, and it
>>> may be worth doing a 1.18.1 release to get them out.
>>> <http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.1.18/en/release-notes/NEWS.html#bzr-1-18-1-not-released-yet>
>>> Because we fixed a serious recently-introduced bug in upgrading
>>> repositories to 2a <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/422849>
>>> we've withdrawn 2.0rc1 from downloads.
>>
>> Honestly, I don't think it is worth the time and effort to make an
>> official 1.18.1. Those two fixes aren't regressions versus 1.17 or any
>> prior versions. They were bugs we've had all along. And those features
>> landed in 2.0 just as well as they landed in 1.18+
>>
>> Those are *really good* changes, but they are features and not
>> regression bugfixes, so IMO don't qualify for a backport release.
> 
> Ohohohoh. I'm very sad to hear this.
> 
>> Obviously Alexander feels differently as he landed the changes on that
>> branch so he could build a 1.18.something for himself. That may be
>> enough to justify rolling 1.18.1 for everyone else...
> 
> Already built (w/o bzr-svn and tbzr) and published for other people.
> You can leave your hat off.

Right, without the things that we usually bundle. Not to mention
rebuilding all of the ppas, Mac OS X installer, etc. *That* is the
overhead, and time I think would be better spent packaging 2.0. Versus
backporting features to a 1.18 release. If 2.0 wasn't next week, I would
be more inclined to do a 1.18.1.

Ultimately, it is Martin's call. I'm just pointing out our general
release philosophy.

John
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