Re: release 3.2.1

[Robert T. Short]

Is there to be no comment on this at all?  Both Daniel and I have made 
the same comments for the same reasons and probably because we have both 
experienced problems like this before.  It isn't that Jaroslav is doing 
a bad job, but rather that the process (or rather lack of process) is 
guaranteed to have significant problems.

Bob

> I think to support the branching paradigm we need a better organized 
> team, possibly more bug reporting / tracking tools, and some type of 
> beta schedule.  One has to resist the desire to get new features to 
> market ASAP, and instead set versions aside so that the whole group 
> can test-run the version over a month.  Just let the developers site 
> know there is a new release candidate for beta testing.  Any bugs 
> could then be entered into a bug tracker (which we don't have) for the 
> particular version.  Without that, one or two release versions, a 
> developer version...and soon it is too much for any one person to keep 
> track of.  If it were a smaller project, perhaps, but not one this size.
>
> Also, there are certain hunks of code that are "tricky programming" 
> and should be modified only long before a release.  unwind_protect is 
> one of those.  Stacks, recursions, interrupts, and such have a lot of 
> paths and conditions that are easy to overlook.
>
> Dan