[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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