On Thursday 2011-09-08 12:05, Patrick McHardy wrote: >Am 05.09.2011 19:54, schrieb Pablo Neira Ayuso: >> Hi Jan, >> >> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 04:20:13PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> Hei >>> >>> I would like to propose a "stable" branch that would be rooted >>> in the most recent tag and only receive fixes. Furtheremore, >>> the branch is merged time and again into master, so that the >>> fix is available in both without cherry-pick. 1.4.12.x releases be made >>> from stable, and 1.4.y from master. >>> How about it? >> >> Hm, I remember that we had this discussion before. >> >> I think it's probably too much overhead for it, looking at how other >> similar net-tools are maintained, the amount of contributions that >> er receive and amount of changes that get into every version. > >I also think this is probably overkill, what's wrong with simply >creating stable branches on demand if there are important fixes >that require a new release? Nothing wrong, it just has not been done consistently or at all in the past. I believe it does not hurt to go ahead with this, also since I am statistically taking care of most submissions these days anyway. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
