From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: iptables branch management Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:52:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4E68BAA8.5010501@trash.net> References: <20110905175425.GC32733@1984> <4E68935B.3000401@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Netfilter Developer Mailing List To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:48749 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932642Ab1IHMxB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:53:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 08.09.2011 13:59, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > On Thursday 2011-09-08 12:05, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Am 05.09.2011 19:54, schrieb Pablo Neira Ayuso: >>> Hi Jan, >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 04:20:13PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>>> Hei >>>> >>>> I would like to propose a "stable" branch that would be rooted >>>> in the most recent tag and only receive fixes. Furtheremore, >>>> the branch is merged time and again into master, so that the >>>> fix is available in both without cherry-pick. 1.4.12.x releases be made >>>> from stable, and 1.4.y from master. >>>> How about it? >>> >>> Hm, I remember that we had this discussion before. >>> >>> I think it's probably too much overhead for it, looking at how other >>> similar net-tools are maintained, the amount of contributions that >>> er receive and amount of changes that get into every version. >> >> I also think this is probably overkill, what's wrong with simply >> creating stable branches on demand if there are important fixes >> that require a new release? > > Nothing wrong, it just has not been done consistently or at all in the > past. I believe it does not hurt to go ahead with this, also since I am > statistically taking care of most submissions these days anyway. What has been done in the past doesn't really matter, we can of course agree to have a stable branch when needed. But I don't see the point of having a stable branch as long as it doesn't contain any fixes.