[Rock-dev] Rock1408 and orogen_loaders

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Janosch Machowinski
<Janosch.Machowinski at dfki.de> wrote:
> Hm, ok. Then a question (for I guess Matthias and Thomas), if this code
> is so pre alpha,
> why in gods name are we using it to run our systems in a competition ?
Because that's their call to make. From my p.o.v.: you don't care
about the toolchain, fair enough. They do, and a competition is
actually a good place to harden software *if* you are ready to spend
the time needed to stabilize it.

The bottom line is: if you get that on stable, you basically decide
*for me* that I should spend the time to stabilize it. You don't have
the right to do that.

I can only repeat what I said: the only person that can decide if some
piece of code should go on stable *is the person maintaining it*. You
can't decide for him whether (1) it is of sufficient quality and (2)
that person can spend the time necessary to fix bugs quickly
(something we all expect on a stable release).

>> +1 on Matthias' comment: a release is not meant to stabilize alpha-quality code.
> Just in general : We are still in the RC phase. For me this is a phase,
> were code can still be
> integrated, or dropped.
Of unstable code ? The RC phases should be short (or you are just
creating a new 'next'), which does not allow for stabilizing unstable
code.

Sylvain