2010-08-18 18:01, Colin Guthrie skrev: > Now on to the next point: More frequent releases. I know that Lennart > doesn't like doing releases, but I think I speak for everyone of us > triaging bugs and working on patches for the stable-queue branch would > prefer to have more interim releases (especially in the current case > where 0.9.22 has been so long in the kitchen due to systemd distractions!). At least you speak for me :-) Thanks for bringing it up, I totally agree. > So, in short, I'd like to take the following actions: > > 1. Rename the milestone 0.9.22 to 0.10.0. The current git master should > ultimately become 0.10.0 (with all it's DBUS funkiness). > 2. Tag stable-queue as 0.9.22 and release a tarball[1] > > Lennart: As always you are in charge, but keeping a track on things is > so much easier if I don't have to explain the fact that there are 170+ > patches to apply on top of the last stable release. > > If you are happy to adopt this numbering approach, I'll take the extra > load that results from doing more interim releases. > > I know that distro policy means that version bumps in packages for > stable distros are generally frowned upon by distro release managers, > but I get the feeling that this is slightly more relaxed these days (I > know it is in Mandriva) if the upstream project is quite clear about > their recommendations and their versioning scheme. > > I mean if 0.10.x is basically "the official, upstream recommended > version of the 0.10 series" then distros can rest easy in updating > 0.10.0 to 0.10.1 in a stable distro. This wont always work if the distro > is too strict but it's still a generally sensible approach to versioning. > > So, what do you think? Agreed. If master was stabilized and had a new release once a few months or so, things would be different, bug given current state of master and stable-queue it makes sense to let them have separate number series. > 1. Only after the either David's or Pierre's patch for fixing tsched=0 > mode is merged into s-q tho' :D Yes please :-) Hope we don't get stuck in never-ending discussions on that one. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic
