[python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 03, 2011, at 09:01 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:

>I don't think branching off at beta1 is helpful.  Developers will happily
>continue adding features to trunk (because that's what's fun, isn't it),
>and not care much about the release branch.  Obviously we want the opposite,
>and we want them to concentrate on bug fixing.

Aside from when we branch for the next release, I think we can still impose
trunk freezes when we feel we need them (either by convention or technology).
This will prevent folks from *landing* new features on the trunk, but it will
not prevent folks from *developing* new features, and even publishing,
reviewing and sharing them.  That's a big advantage over a centralized vcs
like Subversion.

-Barry
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