Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 09 December 2005 09:00, Davide Bolcioni wrote: > >>Kern Sibbald wrote: >> >>>The current "production" release is Bacula version 1.38.2. Between the >>>time it was released (22 November 2005) and now, there are a number of >>>bugs that have been fixed, which some users might want to include in >>>their system. >>> >>>The problem is that these fixes are for the most part in version 1.39, >>>and are quite difficult to back port to 1.38. >> >>I may be stating the obvious, but I've seen other projects leverage CVS >>to handle this. When a new release is on the horizon, a branch is opened >>and Release Candidates are tagged on the branch up to the actual >>release; I gather that Bacula worked like this, but I only had a look. >>Subsequent fixes are performed on this branch, however, and result in >>point releases of the branch. This makes somewhat "easy" to make point >>release 1.38.x; these fixes are then merged on the trunk after a while. > > > Yes, this is a good technique, thanks for mentioning it. I'm aware of it, > and > have used it, but for some reason this time, I made most of the fixes in the > HEAD, which got merged with a lot of new code, so putting that into the > branch (which exists) is much more difficult. > > After testing 1.39.2 in a "production" environment, I'm not yet convinced > that > it is stable enough to release as anything bug beta ...
For what it's worth, I've done rudimentary testing on my code (including exercising most code paths under valgrind), and while I believe it's fairly solid, I would not yet be comfortable with running it in a production environment. Perhaps myself and other contributors can assist in back-porting bug fixes to 1.38 from HEAD? -landonf ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
