[Olsr-dev] 0.6.4 release and "howto do it"

[Henning Rogge]

On 07/19/2012 11:20 AM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
> yay!
> completely what I'd do too :-)

Thank you. Its just copying from other OS projects. ^^

>> New development can be done in the master branch... if someone wants to
>> work on something big, he can either create his own branch or use his
>> own repository... using your own repo has the disadvantage that you most
>> likely will not get much feedback.
>>
>> We just need to keep an eye on "fixes" in the master and cherry pick
>> them for the current "stable".
>
> I propose to have the following convention (taken from the Mesa OpenGL
> project):
>
> - If a patch/commit fixes an existing problem on the stable release,
>    then add the following text to the commit message:
>      'Note: This is a candidate for stable release branches.'

A note like this would be nice, but we should all keep an eye on patches 
to think "might this be stable material".

>> I plan to remove the stable branch completely, so we do not have the
>> problem of people pushing into a "stable branch" because the didn't
>> heard about our change.
>>
>> @Hans Christoph: Do you think we should also create a 0.6.3 branch to
>> collect bugfixes for the Debian release version? This would simplify
>> maintaining the Debian packet I think.
>
> I would propose that we only do fixes on the released version, not on
> versions before that.
> In this case that would mean that we don't need a v0.6.3 branch since we
> obsolete 0.6.3 by releasing 0.6.4

I don't say we should do it for all releases, but Debian freeze to a 
certain version of OLSRd, so they will not be willing to go to 0.6.4 
easily. So keeping the current Debian release "fixed" might be a good 
addition.

Henning Rogge

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