From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5382 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2011 20:34:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 29966 Received: (qmail 19684 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2011 20:34:11 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at bewatermyfriend.org does not designate permitted sender hosts) From: Frank Terbeck To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: Next release In-Reply-To: <20111209141117.52c1e37a@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (Peter Stephenson's message of "Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:11:17 +0000") References: <20111209141117.52c1e37a@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:50:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87iplpzfr0.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Df-Sender: NDMwNDQ0 Peter Stephenson wrote: > As 4.3 seems to be pretty stable I'd like to release 5.0 shortly without > any further major changes. [...] While this is coming up, I'd like to bring up the following from a mail from Peter in January of the year=C2=B9: [...] | CVS is still down. It sounds like it's probably time to move to git | after the next stable release, nobody's suggested replacing it with an | even more trendy system yet... [...] I don't know if that's still something people want. But I thought I'd bring it up again anyway. FWIW, the FVWM folks were planning a similar move and one of their developers (Thomas Adam) wrote a lengthy mail describing how it could work: They had a similar starting point as zsh has. One major development branch in CVS and a working git mirror in place. Thomas later followed up on himself with the following mail regarding the ChangeLog file: ...and I couldn't agree more. I don't know if dropping the stable- vs development versions, is something that would work for zsh (although I think it could - everybody uses 4.3.x anyway) and I also don't know if there would be as much use of public topic branches as Thomas suggests, because that probably only makes sense when big features are being added. But all in all, I think he makes a lot of relevant points that might be transferable to zsh development as well. If there is someone who doesn't know zsh has a working git mirror, yet, the browsable gitweb is here: and the clone address is this: Regards, Frank =C2=B9