Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Next release?

[David White]

Isaac Clerencia wrote:

> On Sunday 14 November 2004 02:10, Cedric Duval wrote:
>  
>
> > Hmm. Then I think we should state the definition of .0 releases.
> >
> > For me (and until now), it was a rather "stable" release, at least one
> > on which we concentrated exclusively on polishing and fixing. (like 0.8,
> > intended to be good enough to be presented on LSM).
> >    
>
> If I remember correctly, some time ago we decided that our "stable" and 
> "development" versions didn't have much sense. In fact, AFAIK, we don't have 
> any server running the supposed stable version (0.8).
>  
Well, I think the .0 releases were meant to be 'stable', however in 
practice they didn't tend to be substantially more stable than any other 
release.

I think if you want to call a release 'stable' it means you have to 
remain committed to it until you release  new stable version. i.e. if a 
serious bug is found in the stable release, you have to backport a fix 
to the stable release. This basically means you have to branch.

Also, I think that a big factor is that almost all our releases are 
stable enough to be called 'stable' considering the version number is < 
1.0. Which I think is something we should all be fairly happy about.

It's amazing how many times I tell users about the bug list on Savannah, 
and they say "whoah! Wesnoth has bugs?? I haven't noticed any!" ;)

David