About unstable

[Doug Way]

On Mar 31, 2005, at 11:08 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> hi doug and others
>
> I pushed some items in the 3.9.
> Self evaluating objects, some fixes of alexander laza, and some 
> pendings cleans of Utilities.

Sounds good.  Thanks for the old scrollbar instance fix (that was a 
nasty one), I was about to work on that.

> Now what I plan to do is to push items on 3.9 unstable and announce it 
> so that people have the time to look at them.

Actually, don't add anything to the unstable stream just yet.  It needs 
to be made in-sync with the stable stream before we start using it.  I 
will take care of this shortly, and I'll announce it and then we can 
start using that stream.

Also, I don't think we should use the unstable stream for adding new 
ideas that we're not sure about (although I don't know what items you 
were thinking of adding).  Dangerous/unstable changes are okay, but the 
unstable stream shouldn't be an area to try out things that we're still 
deciding on.  Basically everything in the unstable stream will always 
move to the stable stream, unless it causes major breakage.  We'll use 
it in the same way Squeak Central used it.  So in that sense, our 
unstable stream is very different from Debian Unstable or something 
like that.

- Doug