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On 12/18/06, Tim Hicks <tim at sitefusion.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just spent some time sorting out the (previously) rather messy
> state of Quills branching in svn.  The upshot is that we should now have
> an up-to-date 1.5 branch that has all of the recent fixes from the
> trunk, without its recent feature changes.  I have also fixed the rogue
> check-in on the 1.5-RC3 tag, porting the fix to the trunk and branch.
>

Huzzah!  Thankfully we get checkins on the list, so let's try and be
helpful / polite to newcomers.  I'm glad to help people merge.

> This means that there is now no excuse: feature changes should *only* go
> onto the trunk, while bug fixes *must* go onto *both* the trunk and the
> 1.5 branch.  This is a requirement for committers to the Quills project
> or we will end up in no end of trouble - not to mention the high
> probability of the fix not appearing in some forthcoming release of
> Quills.  Please *please* obey this rule.

Again, I volunteer to help in any case where this tangles someone.

Please *please* don't nuke the repository trying to obey this rule.

If you don't have meld, get it.

> I have also cleaned out the issue tracker a little bit.  I believe that
> we still have a couple of issues outstanding before a 1.5.0-final
> release is possible.  The main one being the issue to do with
> PickleErrors.  This has a proposed fix recorded in the discussion of the
> issue <http://plone.org/products/quills/issues/45>.  If someone could
> verify the fix and then check it in (to branch and trunk, of course),
> that would be super-smashing-great.

Thanks for all your hard work, Tim!

Perhaps if the Plone blogging world is full of good little girls and
boys, then Father Christmas and his munchkins will fix up Quills when
noone is looking. ;)

-- 
Justizin, Independent Interactivity Architect
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