Rowan Collins wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:12:32 -0800, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
So I have my little mediawiki 1.4rc1 running OK on my PB G4
I just wanted to comment that a lot of the things people have mentionned are of the order of brand new features, so won't it make more sense for some of them to be developed on HEAD (1.5) rather than 1.4?
Or am I doing the wrong thing hacking at that branch? [Trying to rationalise the image syntax parsing somewhat]
Pretty much anything that's not a security fix, localization correction, or relatively straightforward bug fix should be done in the HEAD branch for 1.5.
If a bug fix can be cleanly worked into REL1_4 without breaking things, then we'd be thrilled to have it in 1.4 too. :)
Personally, I keep three branches checked out and have three test wikis on my two development machines (a PowerBook running Mac OS X and a desktop PC running Linux): a REL1_3 checkout for security updates on 1.3, a REL1_4 for current fixes, and a HEAD for major work on the next release.
Remember less is more; new features should strive to remove complexity rather than add it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)