[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Advocating periodic releases

[Roman Shaposhnik]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Clarke, Trevor wrote:
> When it's time for a release, the CM person tags the trunk to a  
> release
> tag, performs addition tests, builds installers, etc. These tags are
> read-only for all but the CM person (subversion allows fine grained
> read-only/read-write/no-access per user (and for anonymous) on all
> directories in a repo)

   How do you balance a need to continue with the development work
but also stabilizing the trunk during the release time ? Does your
development work just cease for the duration of putting a release
out the door ?

Thanks,
Roman.