Development plans

[Scott Ritchie]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Again, congrats to everybody for the 1.0 release!
> 
> Now that I'm starting to recover from the shock of having actually
> shipped 1.0, here are a few notes on future development:
> 
> 1) Code freeze is over, patches are accepted again. If you sent patches
> and they didn't get applied during code freeze, please rebase them
> against 1.0 and resend them.
> 
> 2) Development will continue as usual in the git "master" branch. The
> 1.1.x development releases will be made from that branch every other
> Friday.
> 
> 3) There is now a git "stable" branch, where only important bug fixes
> will be committed. The 1.0.x maintenance releases will be made from that
> branch whenever enough changes have accumulated to justify a release.
> 
> The process I suggest for the 1.0.1 release is as follows:
> 
> - all bugs should be fixed in the master branch first
> - once a bug fix has been committed to master, the corresponding bug
>   report should be marked fixed, with the sha1 of the commit fixing it
> - the bug report should then be put into the 1.0.1 milestone.
> 
> This will allow me to periodically query for 1.0.1 bugs that are fixed
> in master and cherry-pick the corresponding commits into the stable
> branch.
> 

Will the 1.0.1 branch be receiving new conformance tests, or is that
unnecessary?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie