Re: RFC: Planning to branch for 2.6

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The question is which features and important bug fixes were made since
version 2.4 or 2.5, and will be included in the proposed 2.6 branch. If
there are enough of them, then I am in favor of immediate branching off
2.6.
                                   --- Omer

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:54 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> 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.

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