Re: [GNUnet-developers] GNUnet 0.11.0 released

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Christian Grothoff transcribed 4.3K bytes:
> On 2/28/19 5:44 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > Christian Grothoff transcribed 3.1K bytes:
> >> I don't have any GSoC project on the radar that would break 0.11
> >> compatibility, so GSoC should happen on both master (we want it
> >> long-term) and --if necessary-- merged into the 0.11.x branch (for
> >> timely releases).
> >>
> >> On 2/28/19 4:28 PM, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote:
> >>> Okay. I am asking because 0.12 is scheduled for 04/2020 for now. But GSoC 
> >>> ends a lot earlier and it might make sense to release 0.12 after that.
> >>> If not, GSoC might need to happen in the 0.11.x branch.
> >>
> > 
> > So does this mean we're working with branches now?
> > Can you send an update or communicate somehow
> > what you want to change in the process besides
> > still committing to master?
> 
> Ok, so the high-level plan is this:
> 
> * All main development (towards 0.12.x) continues on master.
> 
> * Developers can continue to develop features in their own feature
>   branches, but are encouraged to frequently merge into master (as
>   long as they don't break the build)
> 
> * 0.11.x releases *must* be protocol-compatible to 0.11.0. So once
>   master is NOT protocol-compatible to 0.11.0, development for 0.11.x
>   must continue in an 0.11-branch where we only cherry-pick those
>   changes from master that preserve protocol-compatibility.
> 
> (I originally considered immediately creating the 0.11-branch, but
> given that there will _likely_ be months of development _without_
> breaking compatibility still, I figured this could wait. But if
> someone wants to start the branch off from the 0.11 tag now, I won't
> object either.)
> 
> And yeah, we should probably document this somewhere ;-).
> 

Okay, thanks.

Remind me if you see no 'HACKING' file or new section 'README'
appear tomorrow or at the end of next month.
Ideally it gets into the documentation as well, and website.

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