On Friday 09 December 2005 20:44, Landon Fuller wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the input Landon.
>
> Perhaps myself and other contributors can assist in back-porting bug
> fixes to 1.38 from HEAD?
After thinking about the options for a while, I realized that the only option
that I am personally comfortable with is back-porting, so I spent all day
working on it. I believe that it is now done, and after a few more tests and
after getting some rest, I'll commit it tomorrow. Of course, that is just
the beginning. There is a lot more to be done. Running it in production
here, testing it on the various platforms, reviewing the changes, writing the
release notes, ...
--
Best regards,
Kern
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