On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.cz> wrote: > Robinson Tryon píše v St 10. 04. 2013 v 11:29 -0400: >> So would we provide an EOL date for each point release in a series, or >> just a single EOL date for all of our 3.6.x released builds? > > I think that only the single EOL date make sense. We do not provide > bugfix releases for bugfix releases. We provide bugfix releases for the > minor version X.Y.
+1 >> Perhaps we could add some language on the ReleasePlan page to >> help telegraph the impending end of the series? > ... > I have updated the table title at > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan to mention > "basic dates for the initial and bugfix releases". I wonder if this > might be enough. I think that helps a bit. I believe I understand the situation a bit better now that we've had the conversation, but I'm still slightly confused about the versioning, and that makes me wonder if users would also find themselves confused :-) Taking the 3.6 branch as an example, the first release came out by Aug 12th., after which point there were no new major/minor builds until 4.0 was released just after 3.6.5 in February. That means that for 6 months, the 3.6 branch was our most up-to-date release. That also means (if I understand correctly) that we didn't ship any new features for 6 months. Is that correct? >> Ah, okay, so perhaps a new column in the table: >> >> 3.6.0 - early adopters >> 3.6.1 - (or maybe 'unstable'? marketing would hate that..) >> 3.6.2 - (Better: leave it empty until we can mark it 'stable' :-) >> 3.6.3 - stable >> ... >> 3.6.6 - bugfix >> 3.6.7 - bugfix > > I would prefer to avoid these statements. Every release is different. > Some are pretty good from the .0 release. Some need more love. In > addition, it is individual. Some bugs might be critical for a certain > group of users and uninteresting for others. Fair enough. As I said above, I guess I'm just trying to make better sense of the nature of the point releases. Cheers, --R _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
