[dev] Major CVS changes

[Michael Rubinsky]

--On Tuesday, October 18, 2005 6:56 AM -0700 
dev-request at lists.horde.org wrote:

> From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
> Subject: [dev] Major CVS changes
> To: announce at lists.horde.org, dev at lists.horde.org,
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> This is an important "heads up" for everybody working with or using 
> CVS versions of one of the released Horde modules. Sorry for the 
> cross-posting.
>
> To prepare
> 1) x.1 releases of the stable applications (like Horde 3.1, IMP 4.1 etc) and
> 2) major changes in the development code of some applications
> we merged the complete CVS HEAD (development) branch of Horde, 
> Framework, IMP, Turba, Ingo, Kronolith, Nag, and Mnemo to the CVS 
> FRAMEWORK_3 (stable) branch.
>
> As as result HEAD and FRAMEWORK_3 are currently identical, but this 
> will change again pretty soon. This also means, that the code in the 
> FRAMEWORK_3 branch is no longer stable. The code will maturize while 
> we near the x.1 releases, but people who used to have a FRAMEWORK_3 
> checkout that they updated regularly, should be aware that their 
> checkout will most probably break with the next update. Of course you 
> are still encouraged to test the new code and help us making it 
> stable, but I'll send another message on this topic later.
>
> Another result ot these changes is that the recently released 
> versions will most probably be the last of the x.0 series. The only 
> exception is Horde 3.0.6, which has the first release candidate out 
> at the moment and will be released as a final version within the next 
> weeks. Another exception would be any serious security issues 
> detected before we released the x.1 versions.a
>
> These exceptions will be developed in a new branch created as FRAMEWORK_3_0.

OK, so, just to clarify some things (I'm a bit thick-headed...):

The FRAMEWORK_3 branch will eventually be stable x.1 releases...so will 
we continue to do *all* new development in HEAD and merge bug fixes 
back to FRAMEWORK_3?


Thanks for listening!
Mike