[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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