[oe] [RFC] New stable branch (and maybe a new process?)

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/7/21 Esben Haabendal <esbenhaabendal at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Stefan Schmidt
> <stefan at datenfreihafen.org> wrote:
>
> > What does not fit your needs with the current stable handling?
>
> It started out with a rather continous flow of changed from dev,
> causing it to be almost as unstable as dev. Now stable/2009 looks
> mostly dead.
>
> What I need is a really _STABLE_ branch, but still maintained, on
> which it is possible to base products on for customers which do not
> want to hear about problems with the chosen upstream build system.
> I realize that I am rather alone with my wishes for stable, so I just
> rather silently express my wishes here for the record.
>

You can create your own. That'll give you all the control.
Alternately you just could decide to freeze whatever version you are using
and only cherry pick some bugfixes.
If you are doing end user products it may be a good plan to do a freeze at
some point anyway, otherwise you're shooting at a moving target.

Frans (who understands your desire)

>
> > I would like to have a more continous flow of changes from dev over some
> testing
> > branch to stable. As indicated in my initial mail. That would people
> working on
> > this idea and keeping it alive though. Given that no one seemed to be
> interested
> > but man seem to be interested to get a new stable/2010 branch the same
> way we
> > had for 2009 it seems the most practical way to get one at all, no?
> >
> > Other models will only work if enough support from the active
> contributors is
> > available. Without this even the best idea might die.
>
> Exactly, and this is why I don't really want to push my idea on how a
> stable branch should work, as I realize I would likely end up being
> rather alone maintaining it, which is how it is today with my customer
> OE projects anyways.
>
> /Esben
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