On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 3:59 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 09:24:13AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > Without naming them, I see two different use cases: > > > 1/ "for end users" — rolling stream meant for end users to consume, > likely used in projects without traditional versioning scheme, or for the > latest version that the Fedora's "cutting edge but not bleeding edge" > > > > Many golang packages do not do traditional releases, but instead > > generally assume that the user will pull the latest git master branch > > and use that. Since upstream intends that usage, I think it falls into > > this category. > > Here's a wrinkle on this. When this is the case upstream, we almost > certainly want to provide some stream following that, but we may also want > to provide a more cautious stream. That could be either pinning to an older > release or snapshot and backporting selected fixes, or it could simply mean > a stream which updates to get those selected fixes but on a slower cadence > and not automatically. > > One package I maintain has fairly frequent point releases, but those are > generally extremely trivial bugfixes affecting very little real world use. > It would be easy to have a "stable" stream which opts to not pick these up > for cases where reduced churn is more important than the obscure fixes. > For that you could just make a stream that wouldn't be rolling, but backwards-compatible stream since a specific point in time. Possibly using the calver syntax the docs suggest [1]. [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/making-modules/naming-guidelines/#_module_stream_name > > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Adam Šamalík --------------------------- Senior Software Engineer Red Hat
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