Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 12/09/2011 06:01 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:39:37AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> FWIW in libguestfs we have such a policy.  Every few weeks I evaluate
>> _all_ commits along the development branch and cherry pick those that
>> meet this policy back to the stable branch, followed by making a new
>> stable release.  Here is the policy:
>>
>> http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_version_numbers
>>    from "Our criteria for backporting changes are ..."

Out of curiosity, what's the commit rate for libguestfs and what's the release 
schedule?

I tried this years ago with QEMU and while it resulted in a very active stable 
branch, it was a huge amount of work, particularly as we got about half way 
through the next development cycle.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> For completeness, here is an example stable branch containing
> cherry-picked commits:
>
> http://fedorapeople.org/git/?p=rjones/public_git/libguestfs.git;a=log;h=refs/remotes/origin/stable-1.14
>
> Compare to the master branch to see which commits did and didn't make
> it in.
>
> Rich.
>