On 9/27/05, Ralf Stephan <ralf@...748...> wrote:
I started with small steps but they all involved recompiling a lot for cvs users. Grumbling started. What I blame myself for is not having branched then. OTOH, no one advised me to.
Branch would not be a solution. In the trunk, these issues were found only after some time, even though everyone was using and testing the trunk. This means that in the branch (that much fewer people would use (especially since it provides no exciting new functionality, just code tweaking)) they would likely never be found at all. They would be found after the branch is merged back, i.e. we would get the same situation only with a bigger delay.
So my opinion is that, even though the changes should have been researched better and perhaps applied earlier in the release cycle, at this time we should better spend some extra time fixing them than reverting. Reverting is admitting a defeat. I'd like to avoid that, it leaves bad feelings. Let's just delay the release until we properly review, test and fix these changes.
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