Re: RFC: Planning to branch for 2.6

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 20:47 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I wanted to merge the annotation support back into trunk, but some
> people suggested it might be a better idea to branch off for 2.6 first.
> After that, we could merge annotations, the new build system, etc into
> trunk.
>
> This is a sane suggestion, given the time it already took us to release
> 2.6. If we add unstable features now, it would take even longer. If
> annotations and the new buildsys work out well, we could do a quick 2.8
> for a change (like that's gonna happen :-P).
>
> Anyone against branching for 2.6?
>

Hmm I'd hoped that annotations would be part of 2.6. It adds a feature
much requested by educators. Big markets for AbiWord+AbiCollab are
schools and Universities for which annotations will be a very useful
feature.

I can't imagine annotations becoming fully stable for at least 3 more
months and even that will require lots of feedback from testers and
early adopters. I'd vote for merging annotations intro trunk and
stabilizing it for 2.6.

Cheers

Martin

> Marc
>
Received on Fri Sep 14 03:27:47 2007