Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Next release

[Guillaume Melquiond]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:51:53 +0100, Yann Dirson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:37:46PM +0100, Guillaume Melquiond wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a random thought. I suggest the next release not to be 0.8.12.
> > The 0.8.11 release was a good release imo. Since then, there has been
> > a lot of intrusive changes. I wouldn't be surprised if the next
> > release was rather broken (not that I hope so), so it warrants to be a
> > fresh 0.9.0. I think the 0.8 branch should be left as it is.
> >
> > In fact, we could even start hosting two multiplayer servers. One
> > would be for Wesnoth 0.8.11, since it is a nice and stable release.
> > And the other would be dedicated to the 0.9 branch. I know such a dual
> > server was only supposed to be installed once we reach 1.0. But for
> > the first time, I feel a release is worth having its own port on the
> > server.
> 
> I'd see that as a good idea, but maybe we would want to backport some
> bugfixes from current CVS to the 0.8 branch then ?  I'm mostly
> thinking about the AI recruiting problem mentionned in the changelog.

The AI recruiting problem has been here for ages,  it was already
present in 0.7.9. I'm not against the idea of backporting fixes when
they are worth it, but I don't know of any bugfix even remotely
important in the CVS (it's one of the reasons I consider 0.8.11 a good
release).