[Fusionforge-general] what is the status of the various plugins?

Roland Mas lolando at debian.org
Mon May 10 10:49:40 CEST 2010


JL Bond Consulting, 2010-05-07 12:11:58 -0700 :

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> All that said, we also looked at FF5.0 and stuff that was in the
> latest development tree. We decided that >= 5.0 was simply too much in
> "flux" and decided to use 4.8.3 for our customer. What is the intent
> for the 4.8.x branch? 

I consider it a stable branch in maintenance mode, with only fixes for
major bugs.  I personnally use it as a basis for some customers, with
extra patches applied (including the multi-mediawiki feature, which was
initially developed on top of 4.8 before being pushed to trunk/5.0), but
I only push the fixes to the Branch_4_8 branch.  I think others do the
same (Alexandre seems to commit fixes to that branch from time to time,
for instance).

  5.0 is rather similar, only since it's the latest released version,
fixes for non-major bugs are also good as long as they're not too
intrusive and don't require a major rewrite of a large part of the code.
The instances that I maintain and that are based on 5.0 don't have major
patches applied, and the only large feature I know of that's based on
5.0 is Sourcesup's Shibboleth federated login plugin (which I'd love to
see committed to trunk, by the way :-).

  (For completeness's sake: I don't maintain any instance based on 4.7,
and the code is only maintained for security problems as far as I'm
concerned, since it's part of a stable Debian release.)

> Would it even be helpful to submit fixes for 4.8.x anymore? It seems
> all efforts are focused on 5.0+ and architectural/feature changes you
> guys have already planned. (which by the way, I think are a lot of
> good ideas) If submitting documentation, code fixes, RPM spec files,
> etc. for 4.8.x is meaningful, I think we would be happy to do so.

  For bug fixes, it's certainly helpful (keeping in mind the above).
For the rest, it would probably be more useful to submit enhancements
for 5.0 or (even better) trunk.  As I mentioned, there are several
forges running 4.8 with more or less heavy patchset, and changing 4.8
risks breaking these patchsets.

  These are only guidelines, of course, and contributions will be
assessed on their own merit :-)

Roland.
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