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

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Andreas & Ingmar,

> 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.

I agree you are right. I was publishing the beta in the night before I went
to ski holidays and was pretty sure that I did it the same way last time.
Next time, I'll know and will do it better. Sorry!

>> 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.
> 
> The question is what to do at this stage of the game.
> 
> Would it make sense to remove the branch again?

No I don't think that this is a problem. If someone uses CVS HEAD, he will
surely ask on the dev list why something is broken. In fact, all that is
broken is rtehtmlarea tstemplate which are both very new.

> 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.

Exactly. Just make sure that only *one* person is working on this - I offer
to fix my mistake on my own. If that is ok for you, I'll commit all changes
after each step-release we are doing.

Regards & happy new year!
- michael
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