[gentoo-portage-dev] The road ahead...

[Jason Stubbs]

Since I've fallen into the terrible pit of "trying to make everybody happy" 
and since IRC sucks for making decisions due to lack of continuity, let's 
battle it out here. ;)

Where we're at:

branches/2.0/
Branch from which releases are being made. Very stable as far as portage goes.

branches/savior/
Rewrite which will eventually become 3.0. Still in the early stages.

trunk/
I think Brian summed it up quite well. A lot of experimentation, some 
haphazard refactoring, some well done refactoring, some incomplete features 
and some completed features. Currently quite buggy.

At an estimate, trunk would take at least 3 months of dedicated work to 
stabilize. Given the fact that it will be obsoleted by savior, it would not 
be economical to focus our efforts there. That leaves us with savior, 2.0 and 
a set of refactorings and features. Savior is easy enough. Keep working on it 
until it's ready. ;)

Which leaves us with 2.0 and a set of refactorings and features. I think it's 
pretty much decided that these will be backported to 2.0. The only question 
at this stage is when. The only complicating factor here is the current 225 
open bug reports. That and what to call 2.0+refactorings+features.

So, there's pretty much three ways we can go:

1) Backport refactorings+features and release.
2) Fix more bugs, backport refactorings+features and release.
3) Fix more bugs, release, backport refactorings+features and release.

There's still a lot of bugs that can be fixed without too much work, so I'd 
like to go with 2) or 3). I was thinking to go with 3) with the backported 
stuff being named 2.1.0, which is how we arrived at this thread.

Anyway, flame-war time. :D

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