Re: branching for future fedora releases

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On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:32 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > Only doing builds from a -alpha/-beta/-rc branch only seems to make
> > sense once releng makes an release candidate for alpha/beta/final.  In
> > between those times, the builds should come from the 13 branch.  The
> > only exception to this I think would be the final stage, where there is
> > nothing after that compose.  At that point, changes to the 13-branch
> > should be limited as well, since there wouldn't be any later build to
> > pick up those changes.
> 
> Okay, a refinement of my point but with references to the F-13 schedule
> to make this more concrete:
> 
> 2010-02-09 - Feature Freeze/Branch F13 from rawhide
>              At this point, we create an f13-branch off master, and
>              an f13-alpha-branch off that one.  Bugs marked as
>              F13Alpha get committed here, builds for Fedora 13 come
>              from here.  Stuff that needs to go in for F13 but is
>              not alpha worthy goes onto f13-branch.  New development
>              and all other bug fixes continue on master.
> 
> 2010-02-16 - Alpha Freeze
>              Create an f13-beta-branch.  The only things that get
>              committed to f13-alpha-branch are blockers found in testing
>              candidate trees.  F13Beta blockers get committed to
>              f13-beta-branch.  Builds for Fedora 13 come from
>              f13-alpha-branch.  Stuff that needs to go in for F13 but is
>              not beta worthy goes onto f13-branch.  New development and all
>              other bug fixes continue on master.

I think we want to create f13-beta-branch when the alpha has been
finalized/released. It will automatically pick up whatever has
accumulated on f13-branch during alpha.

> 
> 2010-03-02 - Alpha Release
>              f13-alpha-branch is dead.
> 
> 2010-03-23 - Beta Freeze
>              Create an f13-rc-branch.  The only things that get committed
>              to f13-beta-branch are blockers found in testing candidate
>              trees.  There shouldn't be any bugs that are important but
>              can be put off from beta to RC.  However if there are,
>              those get committed to f13-rc-branch.  Builds for Fedora 13
>              come from f13-beta-branch.  New development and all other
>              bug fixes continue on master.

Same thing here -- wait until beta is released to create rc branch. It
will save some shuffling.

> 
> 2010-04-06 - Beta Release
>              f13-beta-branch is dead.
> 
> 2010-04-29 - Compose Release Candidate
>              Up to somewhere around this date, blockers continue getting
>              committed to f13-rc-branch, and builds for Fedora 13 come
>              from this branch.  Very little activity at all should be
>              happening here.
> 
> 2010-05-11 - Fedora 13 Final Release
>              f13-rc-branch is dead.  f13-branch should reflect what was
>              released, and may continue on to be used by Fedora Unity
>              or similar purposes.
> 
> - Chris
> 
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