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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:01:12 +0200
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Subject: Re: Branching for the CouchDB 1.3 release
From: Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> It's been a while since we released and I want to change this now. I
>> propose making a 1.3.x branch from today's master
>> (66529378dd06342929e04772370f3509cbe786a5) and building 1.3.0 there.
>>
>> As I understand, the principal outstanding issues blocking the 1.3.0
>> release are;
>>
>> 1) Randall Leed's backports of fixes from 1.2.0. This code is written
>> and I have reviewed it, though more eyes are appreciated.
>> 2) The CORS patch. This has been around for a very long time but has
>> not reached our repository in any form. Earlier this month I proposed
>> that if it does not appear in usable form by the end of the calendar
>> month, it gets bumped to the next release.
>> 3) The blockers marked in JIRA.
>>
>> I think all of those things can land on 1.3.x and master.
>>
>> Can I get some votes on my proposal to branch today please?
>>
>> B.
>
> -1 the branch should appear once all patches are landed. What would be
> the reason to branch now?
>

i mean there is no reason to branch right now. We should make sure to
release when everything is frozen. If not we will continuously go from
one branch to the other which could be really problematic. cf last
story of 1.2.

- benoit