On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 3:59 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 09:24:13AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > Without naming them, I see two different use cases:
> > 1/ "for end users" — rolling stream meant for end users to consume, likely used in projects without traditional versioning scheme, or for the latest version that the Fedora's "cutting edge but not bleeding edge"
>
> Many golang packages do not do traditional releases, but instead
> generally assume that the user will pull the latest git master branch
> and use that. Since upstream intends that usage, I think it falls into
> this category.
Here's a wrinkle on this. When this is the case upstream, we almost
certainly want to provide some stream following that, but we may also want
to provide a more cautious stream. That could be either pinning to an older
release or snapshot and backporting selected fixes, or it could simply mean
a stream which updates to get those selected fixes but on a slower cadence
and not automatically.
One package I maintain has fairly frequent point releases, but those are
generally extremely trivial bugfixes affecting very little real world use.
It would be easy to have a "stable" stream which opts to not pick these up
for cases where reduced churn is more important than the obscure fixes.
For that you could just make a stream that wouldn't be rolling, but backwards-compatible stream since a specific point in time. Possibly using the calver syntax the docs suggest [1].
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