From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iptables branch management
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:58:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E68D823.60306@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1109081610030.6362@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
Am 08.09.2011 16:41, schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
>
> On Thursday 2011-09-08 14:52, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Oh we are nicely accumulating fixes & trivials already - do not worry
> about that. Just let me pull this off, all it means is that
> there is another branch head on iptables.git, and something convenient
> for the release manager to tag should the need arise for a .y release.
> Users already seem to like the idea[1].
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=131499886708085&w=2
>
Sure, go ahead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 14:20 iptables branch management Jan Engelhardt
2011-09-02 21:27 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-09-05 17:54 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-09-08 10:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-09-08 11:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-09-08 12:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-09-08 14:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-09-08 14:58 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-09-09 9:31 ` Peter Volkov
2011-09-09 11:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
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