+1 for option B. -igor
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Martijn Dashorst <[email protected]> wrote: > We now live in a semver world and we need to agree on some basics: how > we are going to maintain and release our software. > > From what I have heard from several folks in jira, mail, IRC and > direct communication is that we have basically 2 camps: > > A. develop and release bug fixes until we we start developing for > minor/major releases 6.1 (and 7.0). > > versus > > B. develop and release minor releases, only backporting critical bugs > and releasing bug fix releases in case of critical bugs > > As we are following semver, both are valid strategies. > > Option A would require separate branches for 6.0.z, and 6.y > Option B would require only branches 6.y.z when critical bugs are > found—which should be rare. > > Option A would probably result in some releases like: > - 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.1.0, 6.0.4, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.0.5, 6.2.0, 6.1.4 > > Whereas option B should result in releases like: > - 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.4.0, 6.5.0, 6.4.1 > > What do you think? > > Martijn
