[TYPO3-core] Important: CVS info / TYPO3_4-0 branch created

[Martin Kutschker]

Ingmar Schlecht <ingmar at typo3.org> writes on 
Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:31:52 +0100 (MET):

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Andreas Otto wrote:
> 
> >>IMHO the branch was created to early. The right moment would have
> > > been the
> >>time we reach RC level. Then it would have been clear to every
> > > developer that we also have a feature freeze.
> > 
> > One thing that is really problematic now is that none of the
> > problems 
> > discovered during the first day of Beta 1 will be fixed in HEAD
> > until you or 
> > a delegate finds the time to merge the bug fixes back into HEAD.
> > Which leaves 
> > us with a version in HEAD which currently does not work - but did
> > work until 
> > christmas.
> 
> I agree with you that the branch should be created at the same time as
> the RC and not earlier.


Possibly.


> The question is what to do at this stage of the game.
> 
> Would it make sense to remove the branch again?
> 
> I think it's alright in this situation to just do everything in the
> 4.0 branch and say "sorry, next time we'll do it better" to people.
> Maybe merge changes to 4.0 branch into HEAD once or twice, but since
> it's not that much time until the RC comes out anyway, I think it's
> OK for people 
> to have a not-so-up-to-date and partly broken HEAD for a while.


Either we drop the new TYPO3_4-0 right now or we simply fprget about HEAD for the next few weeks.

I wouldn't care too much about HEAD. Ist there any promise that HEAD is working for any user? Those who care can get TYPO3_4-0 anyway.

Masi