Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#16242 closed New feature (wontfix)

Request to add *release* SVN branch to https://www.djangoproject.com/download/

Reported by: sorin Owned by: nobody
Component: *.djangoproject.com Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Design decision needed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Problem: because django is not released very often, the current release download may be missing essential patches needed for normal development. One example would be CL# 15911.

For this reason I propose the inclusion of the SVN release branch to the downloads page. By using the release branch a developer will take advantage of using a stable and updated django code.

How to solve?
Edit https://www.djangoproject.com/download/ page and add instruction for getting the updated code from http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.3.X/

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Aymeric Augustin, 13 years ago

Component: UncategorizedDocumentation
Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed
Type: UncategorizedCleanup/optimization
Version: 1.3SVN

It could be interesting to have some users on the release branch, because they could detect problems ahead of maintenance releases.

However, this gives us three group of users to support instead of two (stable, trunk). We need to define our policy regarding the release branch first.

Also, at this time, we don't have up-to-date online docs for this branch, which may be a problem.

comment:2 by Luke Plant, 13 years ago

The docs at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ ought to have up-to-date docs for the 1.3.X branch anyway. Since the 1.3.X branch is only getting vital bug fixes, the only differences between the 1.3.X docs and 1.3.0 docs should be corrections.

comment:3 by Malcolm Tredinnick, 13 years ago

Component: DocumentationDjangoproject.com Web site

comment:4 by Malcolm Tredinnick, 13 years ago

Type: Cleanup/optimizationNew feature

comment:5 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Upon further thought, I'm going to reject this ticket, because I think it's more likely to cause confusion for beginners than to help power users.


First, we're really, really careful about keeping trunk stable and backwards compatible.

Then, if you're running from a SVN checkout, you're already trading stability for features, and you're trusting the framework's developers. If you feel there's a difference between the stability of trunk and of the maintenance branch, you're a power user, and you can certainly figure out where to checkout the maintenance branch.

Finally, I think there are very few cases where running the maintenance branch is better than running a patched release.

The long term goal is to have shorter release cycles, and support as few versions as possible in parallel.

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