On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:08:03PM -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > The stable tree for 1.0 has now been created and the mailing list > exists. I am curious as to people's thoughts on how we should proceed. > There was discussion of setting up a predictable time table for stable > releases, say monthly or bimonthly, though that seems a bit difficult > from past experience. Typically I get a flurry of patches shortly after > a release (and they have already started for 1.0). I have tried to get > a .1 release out in a timely manner, and then it seems patches for > stable become few and far between. In the 0.14 and 0.15 series, not > even enough to warrant a .2 release. Perhaps this is due to lack fixed > issues, or lack of effort to submit to stable. What I would like to > recommend is the following: > > 1) On the 15th of every month, the stable queue will be evaluated for > release. > 2) If enough patches exist (or critical enough patches exist), a stable > release will be cut as soon as testing/push/mirror can be done. If > there are no patches, or not enough patches to warrant a release, they > will be held over until the next release. > 3) Security fixes do not follow this schedule, and will trigger a stable > release as needed. > > Questions, comments, concernes? How do people feel about this?
Is there a policy for what commits count as stable? FWIW in libguestfs we have such a policy. Every few weeks I evaluate _all_ commits along the development branch and cherry pick those that meet this policy back to the stable branch, followed by making a new stable release. Here is the policy: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_version_numbers from "Our criteria for backporting changes are ..." This is easy and has worked out well for us. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw