Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Next release

[David White]

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.
>  
I think this is a good idea.

> 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.
If we want to do this, I think we should use a 'patched' server for 
0.8.11, that includes changes to network code to prevent problems with 
clients with slow connections hanging the server for all users.

David