Am 08.09.2011 13:59, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > 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. What has been done in the past doesn't really matter, we can of course agree to have a stable branch when needed. But I don't see the point of having a stable branch as long as it doesn't contain any fixes. -- 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
