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Re: stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches)
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James Youngman |
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Re: stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches) |
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Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:28:03 +0000 |
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Kamil Dudka <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday 04 January 2016 15:17:24 James Youngman wrote:
>> c) I'd like input from the other committers and from the principal
>> downstream consumers (e.g. Andreas, Kamil) before making a choice,
>> since it's the committers who would need to maintain the parallel
>> branches and the downstream maintainers who (allegedly) benefit.
>> Let's have a data-based discussion about what works for everyone - in
>> a separate thread, I'd suggest.
>
> Fedora and RHEL maintainers backport mainly fixes for bugs that are reported
> via Red Hat Bugzilla. At the same time, we update to the latest upstream
> release in the development version of Fedora, from which the stable Fedora
> releases are branched each 6 months approx.
>
> As an example, these are the findutils versions we currently maintain:
>
> findutils-4.6.0 - in Fedora rawhide (the development version of Fedora)
> findutils-4.5.16 - in Fedora 23 (released on November 3rd, 2015)
> findutils-4.5.14 - in Fedora 22 (released on May 26th, 2015)
> findutils-4.5.11 - in RHEL-7 (released on June 9th, 2014)
> findutils-4.4.2 - in RHEL-6 (released on November 9th, 2010)
>
> If there are "stable" branches for upstream findutils, I will be happy to
> share any backports that apply, to make them available to other downstream
> distributions with a similar release cycle. If there is a linear history
> only, it will also work for us.
Just to be very clear, I think this means that you (like Bernhard)
don't think you derive much benefit from the distinction between
"stable" (ftp.gnu.org) and "development" (alpha.gnu.org) releases of
findutils?
Thanks,
James.
- [PATCH 3/8] maint: update .gitignore files, remove obsolete .cvsignore files, (continued)
- [PATCH 3/8] maint: update .gitignore files, remove obsolete .cvsignore files, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 5/8] maint: adjust some copyright headers manually, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 8/8] maint: don't use obsolete gnulib modules, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- [PATCH 4/8] maint: update all copyright year number ranges, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/03
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches, James Youngman, 2016/01/03
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/04
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches, James Youngman, 2016/01/04
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/04
- stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), Kamil Dudka, 2016/01/05
- Re: stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), Bernhard Voelker, 2016/01/05
- Re: stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches),
James Youngman <=
- Re: stable branches (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), Kamil Dudka, 2016/01/06
- Development and release model? - Multiple branches? (was: [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches), Andreas Metzler, 2016/01/05