On 31.12.2010, 16:59 Roan wrote:
As for 1.17 vs. trunk: your DB2 development work should be done in /trunk/phase3 , that's where all development happens. At this point 1.17 is sort of being frozen, so only bugfixes and the like are merged from trunk to the 1.17 branch. This means your DB2 work won't be part of 1.17 (not will any other new features), but it'll be in 1.18 if it's sufficiently stable by then.
I see no problem with backporting DB2 installer and DB class to 1.17 as long as it is clearly marked as experimental. Of course, we must be much more cautious with other changes in core needed for proper DB2 support.