[PySide] About the next PySide release

[matti.p.airas at nokia.com]

Hi,

In my opinion, the regressions need to be fixed before a release can be made. As I see it, though, it should take almost no time to fix the regression bugs if we just get volunteers, and once they're fixed, re-applying the commits from the github fork back to the main repo should be no issue whatsoever because I expect the changes after the  fixes to be minimal compared to the old repos.

If the release would be made from Github, the exact history would be lost once the commits are merged back to the main repo.

So, I would wait until we have received fixes for the regression bugs, then merge the Github changes back to Gerrit, and then make the release based on that codebase. This would also provide a nice incentive for getting the regression bugs fixed. :-)

Cheers,

ma. 

On Feb 29, 2012, at 19:58, ext Hugo Parente Lima wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just raising a small issue: We have enough bug fixes to do a release but due 
> to this long transition to qt-projects plus the guys that didn't accepted the 
> CLA for they patches, mostly of the bugfixes are on github repository and the 
> github repository already differs a lot from the gitorious and gerrit 
> repositories so the question is:
> 
> Should I do a release based on which repository? The most recent github with 
> new bugs fixed or the gerit without the new fixes plus minor regressions due 
> to people that didn't accepted the CLA?
> 
> A hard choice... because if I do the release based on github I'll have a nice 
> PySide release with plenty of bugs fixed but what to do next release? i.e. it 
> doesn't really solves the problem.
> 
> If I go for gerrit, maybe there's not even enough fixes for a release plus I 
> don't want to spend my free time at home doing the re-work of applying patches 
> and solving conflicts on the new repository instead of fixing new bugs.
> 
> While there's not a complete answer for that I can't do a release and PySide 
> stays in this limbo with active development but without a release :-/, for 
> sure PySide can't be that way forever.
> 
> To increase the mess yesterday I pushed commits into Shiboken to simplify 
> PySide releases and development, ApiExtractor is now a static library and 
> GeneratorRunner is no more, so you will only need two repositories to compile 
> PySide, the one for the generator (Shiboken) and PySide itself.
> 
> Comments, opinions, whatever about this issue is appreciated.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> -- 
> Hugo Parente Lima
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