On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:39:14PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > An idea we've kicked around for awhile in Red Hat/Fedora land is doing > official libvirt stable releases, but nothing ever took shape. The idea was > brought up again recently and I've offered to help get something going. > > I've pushed an upstream v0.9.11-maint branch with a bunch of patches > cherry-picked to libvirt 0.9.11. Shortly I'll be cutting a 0.9.11.1 and > pushing it to the website, like other releases. That's very much appreciated and I will certainly track those branches for Debian in case it matches our release pattern and let you know about any additionaly patches I'll cherry-pick from master. Cheers, -- Guido > > Why 0.9.11? Because that's what we will be shipping in Fedora 17 :) Typically > our policy with fedora is to stick with one libvirt version for the length of > a release. Cutting stable releases should save us from having to backport > patches, and hopefully get us more bug fixes than backporting only what our > users report. So I don't plan on doing a similar branch for 0.9.12 or 0.9.13, > but will probably do a branch in 6 months time for whatever libvirt version we > are shipping in Fedora 18. > > While my primary motiviation at the moment is making Fedora maintenance > easier, I hope that other distros will use the stable releases as well, where > we can all benefit from each others QA and attention. > > Any feedback appreciated! > > Thanks, > Cole > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list