[development] should tinymce get a new maintainer tinymce

Robert Douglass rob at robshouse.net
Mon Feb 5 17:23:57 UTC 2007


Boris Mann wrote:
> In some ways, the 5.0 version is a "fork" of the 4.7 code. The nice
> thing is that our current development method actually enables this. A
> suggestion has been to have the 4.7 "evolution" be the 5.0--1.0 tag,
> with the brand new code being 5.0--2.0
>

In fact, this is the responsible pattern to follow. Give folks an 
upgrade path that doesn't change the way things work, deprecate it if 
necessary, and continue development on the branch. Merlinofchaos has 
basically done just this with Panels, and the world is a happy place.


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