[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM 1.7.0 release
Johannes Schickel
lordhoto at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 03:26:17 CET 2014
On 01/08/2014 10:59 PM, D G Turner wrote:
> Eugene,
> Seems reasonable, but we should be sure that our porters for our
> officially supported platforms have time to deal with this:
> http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Platforms
>
> If not, we have the options of either:
> 1. Postpone the release until they do have time.
> 2. For porters who are unresponsive or admit they don't have time, we
> should seek further porters for those platforms and/or replacements
> to take over any orphaned ports.
> 3. Continue as the last few releases and just let any ports not actively
> maintained lag the latest release until we get a new porter step
> forward and provide an updated release.
>
> Personally, I would prefer that the Core Team choose the second option
> here which is to actively engage and expand our porters into porter teams...
>
> Any thoughts or views on this?
>
I think our policy was always to aim for something like 2 in case some
port gets "abandoned"/"neglected". But that isn't mutually exclusive
with 3. In reality waiting for all porters to have time before we
release isn't going to happen in some realistic time frame.
// Johannes
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