[ros-dev] Ros-dev Digest, Vol 46, Issue 23

[James Tabor]

Yes! Before the audit we had a release manager. It was his
responsibility to track down which code segments worked and test them.
I guess right, that was Ge job at one time when we had cvs. Things
have slimed down since then and many developers left the project. I
guess now due to laziness on our part this has been unfilled. Since we
have svn now we do branches and that job went to Brandon, he's gone
too so~. Yes we are lazy and the easiest fix to all of this mess was
to create a release branch and sync fixes to that like I use to do.
Basically doing the thing Aleksey wants to do in the first place with
out starting a fight.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Richman Reuven
<richman.reuven at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi! i've been following the project for a couple of months and this kind
> of drama, i really didn't expect...
>
> both sides have a point.
> a serious project needs a working tree and a work-on tree. (the temp
> working implementation vs correct implementation by magnus isn't a
> simple issue, perhaps there should be another tree for that as well or
> for it to be a work-on-far tree like linux-staging tree - to work on
> things which don't enter the next release...)
> but asking one developer (and quite an experienced, one of the top
> contributors) to be the only one to be double checked is...
> coding conventions also do matter. however I don't think that the diff
> between !f00 and f00==false is what's causing the breakage.
>
> i really don't understand how such a project at this stage, doesn't
> adapt any of the methods used by virtually every other project to manage
> the process...
> also as far as the "it's a private problem" opinions, it couldn't be any
> more wrong! this kind of thing and these decisions will be _hunting_ the
> project for a long while!
> i know both sides seem to be in a "pinch" but it'd be really best if you
> guys said "sorry i was wrong" in private and reported the issue as
> resolved...
>
> sorry for the intrusion...
No,,,, good one~