[ros-dev] Next release

[Ged Murphy]

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.

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

Ged.