Posted on March 21, 2009 at 19:57 UTC,
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Today I released Bugdar 1.2.3, exactly 364 days since the last release of Bugdar. I regret that this release was so long-coming and was far overdue. This release fixes a bunch of bugs that have been accumulating over the course of the past year.
In the future, I will not drag my feet when releasing minor updates like this. The problem is that the current code base for Bugdar (currently the 2.0 Alpha) is quite incompatible with the 1.2.x line. This means, all fixes for bugs affecting 1.2.x need to be redone for 2.0 — which is a lot of duplication of effort. So, rather than continuing to do that, I came up with a better solution.
Bugdar 2.0’s development has been broken up into distinct phases. Unfortunately, due to my own lack of time, progress is slower than I would like. Therefore, I’ve decided that there will be a 1.3 branch to “bridge the gap” between the far-off 2.0 and the current, aging 1.2 branch. Phases 1-3 of the 2.0 development cycle are really underlying architecture changes that just bring the code base up-to-date. After those three phases are complete, Bugdar 2.0 will look and work essentially like version 1.2, but will be more robust and (most importantly) will have a significantly improved language system. It is after Phase 3 that I intend to branch the 2.0 development line into two (the maintenance branch 1.3.x and the current development head 2.0). This would effectively kill the 1.2.x line. And because the two branches would have a more recent ancestor, migrating patches should be easier.
This branching strategy requires little work on my part and will reduce the time I spent migrating patches between branches. Also, it will put in place a language system that will work across 1.3 and 2.0 which is crucial. I have been wanting to create a language pack exchange system so that users can collaborate on and exchange translations of Bugdar, but at present the MO/Gettext system is not good for that. This new language system will be designed to do that. And this branch strategy will get that deployed sooner rather than later.
I wish I could have some sort of timeline for when 1.3 will come out, but I can only really say “as soon as I can.”
Great news!
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