[Scummvm-devel] Regressions - argh!

[Max Horn]

Seems that there are some heavy changes and rewrites being done right 
now. E.g. just now I saws a bug report against DOTT where background 
images are not drawn properly anymore!


IMO, we should consider *stopping* this until after the 0.3.0 
release. If that is not acceptable, make your changes or on a brach, 
or let us branch for 0.3.0 now (whihc of coure means bug fixes have 
to be applied to the trunk and the branch, but hell, that's what CVS 
branches are good for, it's not black magic at all).

If big changes and rewrites keep being checked in on a daily base, 
not only will it introduce regressions over and over again, it also 
renders any testing results (from people who went thru the effort to 
play thru one or more of the games) mostly useless. After all, if the 
game worked last week, but since then five major changes to the 
graphics & script engine were made, we can't know whether the game 
still is even playable.

So either we take this "going to release soon" business serious, and 
then we'll restrain ourselves to bug fixes and approved changes till 
the release. Or if we can't manage to do that, we should be honest 
enough to stop pretending that we are aiming for a 0.3.0 release...


Just my two cents!

Max
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