On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 09:34 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 29/11/10 08:04 did gyre and gimble: > > On 2010-11-28 16:31, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> As you know I've been angling for some kind of solid way forward with > >> version numbers for a while so this email is basically a description of > >> what has been done about this and how we'll move forward. > > > > Thanks for your work so far, Colin! ++ :) > > But can you also clarify is the outcome of this also that > > 1) we will start focusing on making the current master version a stable > > version, and/or > > 2) we will branch off master soon in order to work on new features > > without disturbing that stabilisation process? > > > > Or will we keep the unstable master unstable for the time being, with no > > release plan? > > > > I didn't disucss that with Lennart before he escaped TBH. Arun, can you > perhaps ask him if you see him at Foss.in? With regards to that? Will do. > I'd be off the opinion that I'd like to see a master release sooner > rather than later. I know Lennart generally works to Fedora release > schedules and as F-15 will be running systemd for the first time, I'm > not super confident of whether Lennart would realistically expect a new > PA master release in that time frame or not. I'd say it would be nice to > aim for that until it's clarified but like I say, I'm not super confident. > > Regardless of the "official" plans, there is of course nothing to stop > us taking a stabilisation approach to master now. I agree that stabilising and making a release off master soon would be good. For future releases, though, IMO making a stable branch with some pre-releases, leaving master open for commits (option 2 that David speaks about above) would be nicer. -- Arun
