Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

David and all,
A happy new year three times!

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:23:43 +0100
David Verdin <address@concealed> wrote:

> Happy new year !
> 
> I just came back from holidays today - hence my lack of answers on this 
> list over the last days.
> 
> I'm glad to see that everybody is still eager to work on Sympa. I'm 
> baffled by the number of commits over the last few weeks... Thank you 
> everybody for your commitment in Sympa!
> 
> Now, it appears from the most recent discussion - should I say argument? 
> I think I could... ;-)    - - that we are not all on the same line about 
> what is planned, and who should do what on which branch. Let me clarify 
> this for you.
> 
> Branch 6.1: is a stable branch. We fix bugs mainly. We don't refactor on 
> this branch, we don't improve code design or layout - except if 
> necessary to fix bugs.

A number improvements are contributed by several external
developers (perhaps as the gifts on new year for Sympa users).

<NB>
* And on this occation, I personally "backported" some bug fixes
  from older sympa-6.2-branch-old.  I'd like to explain some
  not-so-ligtht changes (as someone may not take them as
  real bugs): i18n improvements of CSSes and edit_list page seemed
  to be neccessary.  Without former, pages were shown very agirily,
  especially by older versions of IE; Latter will let some
  non-anglophone users (such as in Far East) shut thmeselves up :).
</NB>

BTW,

> Branch 6.2: is still an unstable branch but will not stay this way. I 
> want to issue a 6.2 beta as soon as possible. The branch started on 
> revision 7678, which was the state of Sympa a year ago. This branch 
> contains the code that is currently running on RENATER's production 
> server (safe for the liste.renater.fr robot which runs under 6.1). I'll 
> keep this branch in sync with the 6.1 branch by SVN merges. So we won't 
> do any refactoring in this branch. Originally, Guillaume volunteered to 
> make some cosmetic improvments in this branch but I don't feel it is 
> necessary for the following reasons (explained by Guillaume):
> 
>   * anybody can do what he did, so Soji, Étienne and I can do it if we
>     really want to
>   * there will be refactorings in the trunk so it will becom soon very
>     hard to port changes such as code layout. Better not miw them
>     amongst branches
>   * finally: thay are not necessary to have a running code and these
>     changes could unstabilize and therefore delay the release of the 6.2
>     version.
> 
> Trunk: is the future 7.0 branch. Guillaume will work on it while we 
> (Soji, Étienne and I) will handle the 6.2 and 6.1 branches. Like that he 
> can peacefully work on code cleaning.
> 
> I'll regularly merge 6.1 to 6.2 and 6.2 to trunk to prevent having two 
> times the same commits in different branches.

In present, I'm working off-line for merger of changes/fixes in
6.1-branch into 6.2-branch (it will take effect on-line in this week
or beginning of next week).

I feel few difficulty on this work, however, I wish 6.2 and trunk
would be more or less in sync:  To ease fixes ralating features common
over trunk and 6.2 (such as SDM framework), I wish at least relocation
of files (and also namespaces) could be also done in 6.2.

Of course, it can be done by me.

> Please remember all, before starting working, to synchronize your local 
> version of the sources with the latest version of the repository : svn 
> update.
> 
> To sum up: I want to release the 6.1.18 as soon as possible (still need 
> to fix two bugs in it) and release a 6.2 beta very soon too.

Two?  I have noticed only one.  What is another...??

> Best regards,
> 
> David

Regards,

--- Soji


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