'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 10/11/10 17:26 did gyre and gimble: > [In the future please start a new message rather than replying and > changing the subject as it messes up threading] > > 'Twas brillig, and Pichon, SylvainX at 10/11/10 10:16 did gyre and gimble: >> I know this topic was already discussed but I 'd like to know if are >> there some updates. >> >> 0.9.21 branches seems to be dead and current development branch is >> based on 0.9.19 and is newer. > > The branch for 0.9.21 is certainly not dead. I just pushed some fixes to > it the other day and have regularly pushed updates to it ever since > 0.9.21 was released. > > See here: > http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-queue > > The fact that master is based of 0.9.19 is just a quirk of how things > worked out. Everything that is in 0.9.21 (and the stable-queue branch) > are also in master, so it's very much "newer" than 0.9.21. > >> This begin to be a big problem since it is not easy to convince >> people to use our developments based on 0.9.19 instead 0.9.21. Even >> if it is newer... > > Yeah don't worry, it's just a quirk of how things are orgianised. I'm > planning to push a tag to master to make master compile as 0.10.0-devel > or at least 0.9.23) but need to get approval from Lennart before I do > that (the version used inside configure.ac is actually generated from > git-version-gen script, so it's labelled as 0.9.19 due to how the git > tree was organised). > > If you are doing any work, then master is likely a good place to do it. > If you prefer to do it against stable-queue, then that is likely also > fine. Rest assured both master and stable-queue are quite active and > despite it's lower version number master is newer and contains more > (have a look at git cherry if you want to confirm :D) I forgot to say in the last mail that what is currently stable-queue will very soon become 0.9.22... just depends on how heavy a stick I can find to bash Lennart with :D He did say he'd do it before Plumbers, but that didn't quite happen.... Fingers crossed he's updated his "soon" definitions to v2.0 as his v1.0 definition of "soon" seems to take a long time to complete... :p (joke) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
