@team, are we going to provide LTS version? If so, we definitely need a branch to back merge issues; if not, we release a new version monthly (??), we'd suggest user to upgrade to next release.
---- Da (Klaus), Ma (马达) | PMP® | Advisory Software Engineer Platform OpenSource Technology, STG, IBM GCG +86-10-8245 4084 | klaus1982...@gmail.com | http://k82.me On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Kevin Klues <klue...@gmail.com> wrote: > I respectfully disagree. > > The whole purpose of tags is to mark permanent things like releases, > whereas branches are designed as temporary lines of development that > come and go (and grow and shrink) dynamically all the time. > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Jie Yu <yujie....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I like the idea of using branches to manage releases. > > > > We can use that to manage point releases and backports as well. > > > > Say we want to cut 0.29.0 now, we fork a branch 0.29.0 and tag RCs in > that > > branch. Once the RC is accepted, the head of that branch will become the > > release. > > > > Then, we immediate fork that branch and create 0.29.1 branch. > > > > When a new bug fix is committed on the trunk, the committer will decide > > whether it'll affect the old releases (a bounded number, we can decide > that > > later). If it does, the committer of that patch should also cherry-pick > > that patch to the point releases (e.g., 0.29.1 in this case). We can do a > > timely based point releases. > > > > - Jie > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Cong Wang <cw...@twopensource.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Joseph Wu <jos...@mesosphere.io> > wrote: > >> > Cong Wang, > >> > > >> > The tags are sync'd. See: https://github.com/apache/mesos/releases > >> > > >> > You might not have done: git pull --tags > >> > >> > >> Yeah, I figured it out by myself too. This is why I hate tags > personally, > >> branches are better since they are fetched without additional > parameters. > >> > >> Any reason why Mesos maintainers picked tags over branches to manage > >> releases? Just curious... > >> > > > > -- > ~Kevin >
