RFC: bbox 1.5.0?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 19 March 2007 15:10, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > Because of this, and since we started to get more mails
> > about bugs in 1.4.x which are already fixed in svn, I am
> > thinking about releasing busybox 1.5.0 before starting
> > any new significant work on busybox.
> 
> What plans do you have for post 1.5?

a) adding few more applets
b) maybe persuading gcc to stop performing sadistic
   data alignment (like 32 bytes!!! ARRRRGGGGHHHHH)
c) ...

> > What do you think about this?
> 
> I think it sounds good. You could declare a feature freeze for a while
> and start hunting bugs, create a stable branch in svn for 1.5 and
> release a beta for ppl who dont like building from svn.

What if 1.5.0 *is* a signal that 1.5.x is feature frozen? All
guinea pi^W^W our dear users will rush to busybox.net
and help us with testing then...

Desire to release 'flawless' 1.5.0 is understandable, but OTOH,
isn't it a sign of cathedralism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
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vda