[Seaside] So where is the "release" version of 3.7?

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/2/27, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com>:
> I don't understand the push back.
>
> There are a bunch of branches.
> Seaside2.50
> Seaside2.5b7
> Seaside2.5b8
> ...
> Seaside2.7a1
>
> I would like to see a branch
> Seaside2.7 - which I would expect to be the release version.   The really
> great email by Philippe that lists all the features in the new release
> should be in the class comment of the oldest version in this branch.
>
> Any new changes in this branch are minor bug fixes.  Minor bugs discovered
> in 2.8 and fixed will have to have their fixes backported.  Keeping the list
> apprised of those fixes you make will help people improve the quality of 2.7
> while still letting you press on in 2.8.
>
> The comment in the last version of 2.7a1 BTW gives me pause:
>
> - backoff the change in mb-202 entitled "recovered essential lost input
> conversion code"
>
> That doesn't sound like a minor bug fix.  It sounds like a big change.  It
> makes versions from 202-204 suspect.

Summary: Seaise2.7 < 202 | > 204
Don't do any conversion magic on text input fields. They accept
strings and return strings.

> Not good versions to use for
> production, probably.  But this is the immediate ancestor of the
> Seaside2.8a1 branch?

Seaside2.7a1-mb.205 is the ancstor for Seaside2.8a1-pmm.1

> So my complaint is that the version numbering only makes sense to you.  The
> criteria for bumping the version number only makes sense to you.  There is
> nothing for someone doing production code and desiring a stable platform to
> hang his hat on.
>
> I'm glad you're having fun.  But I'm not.
>
> -Todd Blanchard
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
>
> So if there is a solution it must be one of the following:
>
> - someone currently doing no work for Seaside is stepping up to do
>
> "release management" or whatever you call it
>
> - some simple change that makes it easy for contributors to deliver
>
> "stable versions"
>
>
>
>
> I'd appreciate if the discussion focuses more on these two items and
>
> not on what we could all do if this was a big time Apache project and
>
> we were all paid for doing this.
>
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