Joerg Mayer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:28:02PM +0200, Balint Reczey wrote: >> I think we should stay with the current policy of adding only bugfixes >> to the stable branch. > > There have been minor non-bugfixes before - no need to be too strict. > IIRC, there have been changes to e.g. the list of supported capture file > formats in the past. Yes, there have been, but personally I would prefer a strict bugfix-only policy for stable branches.
>> In Debian, there is an ongoing discussion about allowing whole Wireshark >> stable branch updates to enter Debian stable, but if we push new >> functionality into the stable Wireshark branches, this does not seem to >> be a good idea. > > That's for Debian to decide, but I don't see any reason that we should > base *our* policy on Debian's policy. If we go about the changes carefully, > maybe add some sort of Acked-By policy, which means that someone else who > feels competent to evaluate that patch and the patch is not too complex, > then why should't it go into the stable branch? Yes it is our policy and we have no obligation to base it on others'. I just wanted to point out that others may rely on our policy, and we may consider their standpoint when changing our policy. Cheers, Balint ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
