On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 11:57 +0200, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > Chetan Mehrotra wrote > > Currently we are including 1.5.x version of Oak in Sling which are > > considered unstable. Not sure on best way to deal with that. > > > > One way out could be to align release of launchpad in Sling with > > major > > version release of Oak which typically happens once in year around > > Feb-March. This would allow us to include the latest stable release > > of > > Oak in launchpad and would also ensure that any feature work in > > Sling > > which rely on Oak also get completed. For example currently the > > Sling > > Listener feature needs some further work and has some dependency on > > works being done around observation event filtering in Oak > > > > > Hmm, if there is an Oak release once per year and we do quartly Sling > releases, we can basically only include new stuff of Oak every year. > > As we definitely want to do a release of Launchpad 9 this year, we > would > have to switch back to Oak 1.4.x, cutting out some stuff
I would ask first what the exact issues are with the current 1.5.x implementations. It is much simpler for us to just ship what we have under the assumption that the launchpad is mostly used for demo/experimental setups, and that people are building their own launchpads for production setups. Robert
