Hi everyone, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Chow Loong Jin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/06/2011 19:07, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >> Hi Loong Jin >> >> On 09/06/11 01:38, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >>>> 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. >> >> OK. Sounds close, but can we turn that into a strict, written policy? >> And add the test process that Martin describes in his follow-up email? >> That will build confidence (not only in Ubuntu but in other distros too >> I imagine) in the micro-releases. > > I'm CC'ing Banshee developers Gabriel Burt and Bertrand Lorentz to this > conversation for their input.
To document our policy for our stable branch, I've just created the following wiki page : https://live.gnome.org/Banshee/StableReleasesPolicy It is just a draft for now, and it might be amended after further discussion in our community. But I don't expect any significant changes, as we've been under the same unwritten rules for more than year. The "testing process" part still needs some work. > For completion, here's the quoted text from Martin's email: >> In particular, if there are more complex changes than five-liner crash >> fixes, etc., then an MRE usually includes how upstream tests their new >> stable releases -- i. e. on which distro, what kind of features, >> upgrade from previous versions and existing music DBs, etc. >> >> Do the changes to stable banshee have a similar UI/string/feature >> freeze than we have in Ubuntu? Our release schedule and policy is roughly the same as GNOME, so stable releases have a similar UI/string/feature freeze. See the wiki page linked above. Regards, -- Bertrand Lorentz -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
