First: It's been over a year since we've had a release of Scoop. I think
it's about time we do so again, folks. When's a good time for everyone
to have a developer meeting to figure out how we should do this exactly
and what we need to do?

Second: I bounced this idea of rusty yesterday, and he seemed to like
the idea. Basically, I think after this next release of Scoop (which I
think we might as well make 1.0), we should branch Scoop into -STABLE
and -CURRENT branches, much how FreeBSD does its development.

The -STABLE branch will continue on based on the Scoop 1.0 codebase, and
this is where point releases on the 1.0 branch will come from. It will
have the expectation, though, that it should be working at all times.

The -CURRENT branch, while it will initially be based on the Scoop 1.0
codebase, will quickly diverge from it and go off in its own direction.
This is where the heavy development will occur, and this codebase is
what will someday become Scoop 2.0. The thing about the -CURRENT branch
is that it may or may not ever actually be working at any given moment,
and you'd be insane to run a production site on it. As new, neat
features get developed in the -CURRENT branch, though, they'll be
backported into the -STABLE branch. -CURRENT would also be a good place
to refactor old weird code (*cough*Comments.pm*cough*) without worrying
about screwing up the main trunk.

Anyway, that's my idea, and I already said I'd oversee the -CURRENT
branch. Does anyone else have anything to add?

-j

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