[dev] Horde 5?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:
>>
>>>>> I think we began changing the Wiki page to "Horde 4.1 not planned"
>>>>> before it went into maint.
>>>>
>>>> I would love to start breaking BC and removing deprecated stuff, since
>>>> it seemed like half of the work/fixes I did this evening was figuring
>>>> out how to keep compatibility rather than fixing the problem.
>>>>
>>>> But I also think before we start work on Horde 5 we should probably
>>>> decide on how (or if) to setup the git repo differently than what we
>>>> currently have. Meaning: separate git repos for each
>>>> application/framework going forward?
>>>
>>> Don't know if we shouldn't postpone this repo reorg to release time.
>>
>> I would vehemently disagree with this statement.  The time to  
>> change repo structure must occur during the developmental window,  
>> not right after the first stable version is released.  What if we  
>> discover that we can't accommodate a new structure under Horde 5,  
>> as released?
>
> We'd stick to the monolithic repository for Horde 5 then and would  
> prepare Horde 6 in the splitted repository.
>
> Question is: Are there issues to be expected that will bite us later  
> in case we go with a monolithic repo for the switch from Horde 4 to  
> Horde 5?

The major issue wouldn't bite us immediately, but it would affect when  
we start doing Horde 6 development and start merging fixes back into  
Horde 5.  This is the problem I recently ran into, and it broke a  
bunch of stuff in IMP 5 due to major issues with a merge.

These fixes were all bugfixes, but they didn't apply correctly to IMP  
5.0.  And since I no longer run IMP 5.0, I would have never caught  
these issues save for the fact that one of my clients was noticing  
problems.  That was a fortunate occurrence, not the norm.

And the reverse is true also.  I just noticed that the Edit As New  
menu item I added to IMP 5.0 a few days ago got lost in 5.1 due to a  
double conflict in a merge (e.g. stuff was merged from 5.1 -> 5.0,  
this merge needed to be edited to work in 5.0, then when 5.0 was  
merged back into 5.1 this commit got lost).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]