> The discussion also brought up the notion of an LTS release line. I'm not > sure how this jives with the more fequent minors, but would require some > branch that's so stable that an RM can effectively spin releases blind.
Seems to me like this branch would necessarily need to be very backport-light? Only the top of the highest priority issues would be backportable to it, no? On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@apache.org> wrote: > Last time we DISCUSSed EOL of 1.1 was back in November. At that time, a > litany of issues were raised re: 1.2. Have those concerns been addressed? > It seems to me that making this one the last release is too abrupt to folks > tracking Apache. Would be better to give some notice. > > Had a nice hallway conversation a couple months back (at PhoenixCon, as it > happens; they feel the pain as well) about our branch situation. I'll let > the others chime in with more details, but the gist as I recall is that we > should be doing more frequent minor releases with fewer patch releases. > This pushes stabilization efforts closer to master and also imposes more > strict stability requirements on big new features before they can be merged > off the feature branch. > > The discussion also brought up the notion of an LTS release line. I'm not > sure how this jives with the more fequent minors, but would require some > branch that's so stable that an RM can effectively spin releases blind. > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 12:14 AM Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > > > (This came up during dev meeting in Shenzhen) We are running too many > > branches and/or when applying patches, we do not do a good job > backporting > > to all active branches, especially fixes. > > > > We have master, branch-2, branch-1, branch-1.4, branch-1.3, branch-1.2, > and > > branch-1.1 active currently. If a dirty bug fix, the applier is > backporting > > to 7 branches. It takes a while applying to all especially if the > backport > > doesn't go in clean. I suppose the RM could monitor all upstream of them > > and then pull wanted patches back (we could do that too) but seems like a > > burden on an RMer. > > > > We should EOL a few? > > > > Nick is on branch-1.1 release at the moment. Perhaps this could be the > last > > off branch-1.1. > > > > 1.2 hosts our current stable release though 1.3 is out. How about we cut > a > > release off 1.3, call it stable, and then EOL 1.2 after another release > or > > so? > > > > What you all think? > > > > Thanks, > > S > > >
