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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases |
Date: | Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:25:39 -0600 |
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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.
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