[Rock-dev] Rock1408 and orogen_loaders

[Janosch Machowinski]

Am 18.08.2014 17:19, schrieb 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).
woooow, were did this come from ? As you can read above, I acked your 
decision,
that loaders does not go on the RC branch.
And for my question, this has nothing to do with you. As you might know, 
I am
involved with the spacebot. And just to return this, it is not your 
call, to say
what software should be used in a completion, were you are not involved in.
     Janosch
>>> +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