[crossfire] [Crossfire-cvs] SF.net SVN: crossfire: [5665] maps/tags/1.10/

[Mark Wedel]

Nicolas Weeger wrote:
> Le dimanche 04 mars 2007 08:55, Crossfire CVS repository messages. a écrit :
>> Revision: 5665
>>           http://svn.sourceforge.net/crossfire/?rev=5665&view=rev
>> Author:   mwedel
>> Date:     2007-03-03 23:55:08 -0800 (Sat, 03 Mar 2007)
>>
>> Log Message:
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>> 1.10 branch
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I (and I'm sure others) would have appreciated some notification of incoming 
> 1.10 release, as I'm trying to fix some things related to Windows version of 
> server.
> 
> Could I ask for ~2 weeks notice before releases, so we can freeze stuff and 
> fix critical/blocking bugs?

  The problem here is my available time to make releases.

  As many may recall, at the start of this year, I made the announcement that 
I'd make a release (1.10) shortly.  At the time I made the announcement, I had 
time (right then) to make the release, but giving a couple weeks for bugs to get 
fixed, etc, seemed like a good thing to do.

  However, work, home, and other things cropped up, and 2 weeks later, I didn't 
have the time.  So now we are 2 months later, and 1.10 has yet to be released.

  So I basically came to the conclusion that I have the time right now to make a 
release, so should do it.  Looking at my schedule, there is a good chance that 2 
weeks from now, I wouldn't have time.  And then the release gets put off longer, 
etc.

  This release is also a little more time consuming, as it is our first release 
under SVN.  I'm also writing a pretty detailed doc on the wiki on the steps 
needed, so perhaps others could make the releases (it isn't particularly hard, 
but does take a fair amount of time).

  IMO, release of crossfire should be done more often (quarterly perhaps)?  Gets 
the code out there a little faster, but it also means that if something misses a 
release, it doesn't have to wait as long for the next release.

  In any case, sorry for not giving notice, but just needed to get a release out 
while I had the time to do it.

> 
> Nicolas