[oe] Questions about openembedded stable branch

[Anand Sivaram]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 09:00, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Anand Sivaram <aspnair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As I was going through the stable documentation given at
> > http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Stable
> > I had a couple of questions.
> >
> > * Seems like there should have been a release "stable/2010" some time
> around
> >  March, but I could not find any mention about that release.
>
> There is no 2010 release yet.
>
> >
> > * OE repository contains very few tags.  Also there is no
> >  "year.month" tag as given by the stable branch documentation.
> >
>
> once release is panned out that will be tagged.
>
> > * Is there any testing branch (like in Debian) where relatively "stable"
> >  packages are moved and they eventually become stable?
>
> .dev/master is the most active branch but there is no testing branch per
> say.
>
> >  Or is it like mainline linux kernel where features are frozen, then
> >  do RC releases and finally the stable release?  It looks like
> >  origin/org.openembedded.dev is a rolling/floating place where
> >  packages/features are constantly getting included.
>
> thats right.
>
> >
> > * I would like to know how the stable/2010 branch is created.
>
> Do you want to know how or when ?
>
> >
> > * My main objective is to find a branch/tag/version
> >  newer than stable/2009 and more stable than the dev main branch.
> >
>
> you can use .dev of any day.
>
> > Thanks and Regards
> >
> > Anand
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Thanks Khem for your inputs.
>> * I would like to know how the stable/2010 branch is created.
> Do you want to know how or when ?
I meant, the overall big picture and criteria of creating the stable/2010
branch.  Is it feature/bug fix/time/stability driven etc.