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how many stable branches to have
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 14:16:32 -0400
There was a discussion about what branches to possibly backport fixes to. Guy has related: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote: > Wireshark has: > https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle > * the current development branch (master, trunk, whatever); > * the current stable branch (currently 1.12); > * the current "old stable" branch (currently 1.10); > Security fixes are backported to the stable and "old stable" branches > if they apply (or committed to those branches if they don't exist in > the trunk), as are some other bug fixes. I don't think that we need to have both stable and old-stable. People asked for more regular releases awhile ago, and I said that I'd get two releases out a year, possibly three, and that they would most likely be aligned with IETF Spring and Fall meetings. (IETF meetings have gotten really busy/exhausting for me of late, so sometimes things have slipped) > There are also lts-1.12.1, lts-1.2.11, and lts-1.8.2 branches that were > created by Balint Reczey, the maintainer of the Wireshark Debian > package, for the benefit of Debian; he backports fixes to those > branches for incorporation into older Debian releases. Presumably > other distributions'/*BSDs/etc. maintainers could create their own lts- > branches if they want. > We might want either to pick a set of "long-term support" branches to > which we'll backport security fixes and at least some other fixes, or > offer a similar option to maintainers to create their own lts- > branches. I have no problem with having lts- branches created for distros, and I'd rather do that than have "old stable". I'd rather call them something like: wheezy-4.7 or centos7-4.7 so that we'd know both where it is going, and also when we can abandon them... -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] mcr () sandelman ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
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