Hi Mark, On 08/06/2011 23:33, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 02/06/11 14:36, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> At this point, a git branch, named stable-x.y will be created from the tag >> for >> the new stable series. Development and bug fixes will continue as usual in >> the >> master branch, and bugfixes deemed important and stable enough will be >> cherry-picked into the stable-x.y branch. At unspecified intervals (usually >> based on the number/importance of the bugfixes), a new stable release will be >> made, from this branch, such as the recent 2.0.1 version. > > Chow Loong,
(Chow's my surname; Please call me Loong Jin instead)
> is there a documented policy for "important and stable"? In
> general, we like to grant these kinds of micro-release exceptions to
> empower upstreams, but we do so only when there's consensus between us
> and upstream on the criteria for such changes in a stable release.
Unfortunately, we don't have such a document. Commits that are cherry-picked
into the stable branches are done at the discretion of the core Banshee
developers, and there is a strict, unwritten policy of "no new features" in the
stable branch.
>
> It sounds like you are adopting a great practice I'd simply like to
> confirm that we're on the same page as to the nature of such changes. If
> you could point the TB to a document describing the criteria and stable
> change review / approval process, as well as list the changes made in
> 2.0 -> 2.0.1 as an example, that would be most helpful.
Output of `git shortlog 2.0.0..2.0.1' from git://git.gnome.org/banshee.git:
Bertrand Lorentz (2):
build: Don't delete gnome-doc-utils.make during distclean (bgo#648133)
PodcastFeedPropertiesDialog: Fix display of feed URL
Bruno Brouard (1):
Updated French Doc Translation
Changwoo Ryu (1):
Updated Korean translation
Christopher James Halse Rogers (1):
StreamPositionLabel: Drop unnecessary redraws (bgo#647144)
David Nielsen (1):
DatabaseImportManager: Add .spc to whitelist (bgo#648941)
Dustin C. Hatch (1):
Last.fm: Close HTTP streams when finished with them (bgo#642140)
Fran Diéguez (1):
Updated Galician translations
Frank Ziegler (1):
AlbumListView: Fix disappearing option in Preferences (bgo#646991)
Gabor Kelemen (1):
Fix a Hungarian translation error
Gabriel Burt (8):
Hyena: Update, fix Remote Daap crash (bgo#647059)
Daap: Bind to IPAddress.Loopback instead of Any (bgo#647089)
StreamPositionLabel: Avoid unnecessary redraws (bgo#647144)
AppleDevice: Ensure m4a/mp3 are supported (bgo#633552)
AmazonMp3.Store: Use String.Concat and const for redirect URL
AmazonMp3.Store: Get the redirect URL from conf
DatabaseSource: Fix NRE in SkipTrackIfRemoved (bgo#647932)
Update NEWS etc for 2.0.1 release
Hajime Mizuno (1):
Dap.MassStorage: Add USB ids for Xperia X12 (bgo#647754)
Hajime Taira (1):
Added Japanese translation of help
Lê Hoàng Phương (1):
Updated Vietnamese translation from Ubuntu
Mario Blättermann (1):
[l10n] Updated German doc translation
Michael Kotsarinis (1):
l10n: Updated Greek translation for banshee
Michael Martin-Smucker (1):
PlsPlaylistFormat: Make parsing the header case-insensitive (bgo#648458)
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):
po/vi.po: import from Damned Lies
po/vi.po: "Seek" -> "Tua"
Olivier Dufour (1):
Lastfm: Fix NRE crash (bgo#647024)
Will Thompson (1):
AmazonMp3.Store: Fix signed-in detection for UK store
Wouter Bolsterlee (1):
Updated Dutch translation by Wouter Bolsterlee
Yuri Myasoedov (1):
Updated Russian translation
krishnababu k (3):
Adding Telugu translations done by praveen
corrected Telugu Translations
Added Telugu locale entry te in LINGUAS
> Separately, if your community does not already have a packageset and
> more direct upload permissions, it might be worth setting out to achieve
> that too, so you can have even more control of the flow of your code
> into the archives.
Banshee is maintained under the ~ubuntu-cli-mono-dev packageset, and I already
upload Banshee directly to Ubuntu, so no problem there. :-)
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Kind regards,
Loong Jin
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