[dev] Re: New release cycle

[Jan Schneider]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:
> 
> > I'd be glad to run releng_*, and used to back when it had the
> > functionality I needed.  But now the functionality I need is only in
> HEAD,
> > so I run HEAD.
> > Releasing a Horde 3.0 would solve this, and I'd go back to releng_*
> > releases...  Hence the start of this thread: lots of good features in
> > HEAD that are stable and should be released, but haven't...
> 
> One of the things I'd like to do is to completely switch the base
> framework
> over to packages, so that we can avoid some of the thornier upgrade
> problems. We'd still occasionally have bc issues, but anything that
> *added*
> functionality could just require a new package.
> 
> I haven't entirely thought it through, but I think this would let us be a
> lot more flexible going forward, and pushing out new functionality.

Can you elaborate on this? This sounds like it won't happen before Horde 4.0
but I might be wrong and it's easier than I think.

Jan.

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