On 02/03/08 17:43, Gregoire Favre wrote:
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:24:03PM +0000, Jon Burgess wrote:
The linux kernel development has been through similar arguments about the merits of the 2.2/2.4/2.6 development models. I can not see any negatives in releasing a new stable version.
It's hard to compare VDR to kernels : VDR is maitained exclusively by Klaus, so If there is a "stable" release, he would have to spent lots of time in the stable branch before coming to the new devel branch again.
If you look at the VDR code quality, and stability of the compiled code, I would say, we already have a stable branch in respect to usability :-)
Well, then documenting that by calling it 1.6.0 now can't be that wrong ;-).
Those that require DVB-S2/H.264 can carry on using the development tree. Those that want the other new features from 1.5 can use the new stable release without getting dragged into requiring a non-distro kernel and frequent updates.
No, I doubt there will be two branches at the same time...
Once a 1.6.0 is out, there will only be bugfixes in it. No more changes to interfaces, functionality etc.
Development will immediately resume with version 1.7.0. And there doesn't necessarily need to be a stable 1.8.0 - the next stable that includes DVB-S2 and H.264 could get the magical version number 2.0.0 ;-).
Klaus