Re: [tcpdump-workers] how many stable branches to have

2015-07-10 Thread Francois-Xavier Le Bail
[Sorry for the late response, the message was in the spam box] On 08/06/2015 11:32, Denis Ovsienko wrote: On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:12:03 +0100 Francois-Xavier Le Baildevel.fx.leb...@orange.fr wrote On 26/05/2015 15:33, Michal Sekletar wrote: On 05/26/2015 11:46 AM,

Re: [tcpdump-workers] how many stable branches to have

2015-06-08 Thread Denis Ovsienko
On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:12:03 +0100 Francois-Xavier Le Baildevel.fx.leb...@orange.fr wrote On 26/05/2015 15:33, Michal Sekletar wrote: On 05/26/2015 11:46 AM, Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote: I propose this: We could give an End of Life date for each release branches.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] how many stable branches to have

2015-05-26 Thread Francois-Xavier Le Bail
From: Michal Sekletar msekl...@redhat.com Instead I propose we should consider scheme used by Linux kernel, i.e. having {tcpdump,libpcap}-$version-stable and {tcpdump,libpcap}-$version-longterm branches. AFAIK, This is not the scheme used by the linux kernel. they don't have '-stable' or

Re: [tcpdump-workers] how many stable branches to have

2015-05-26 Thread Michal Sekletar
On 05/26/2015 11:46 AM, Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote: AFAIK, This is not the scheme used by the linux kernel. they don't have '-stable' or '-longterm' in their names as these are moving 'attributes' given on the main page of kernel.org. You are right, those really are attributes. I

Re: [tcpdump-workers] how many stable branches to have

2015-05-25 Thread Michal Sekletar
On 05/21/2015 08:16 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: I have no problem with having lts- branches created for distros, and I'd rather do that than have old stable. I'd rather call them something like: wheezy-4.7 or centos7-4.7 Clearly having CentOS branch upstream would make my life

Re: [tcpdump-workers] how many stable branches to have

2015-05-22 Thread Michael Richardson
Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: I have no problem with having lts- branches created for distros, and I'd rather do that than have old stable. I'd rather call them something like: wheezy-4.7 or centos7-4.7 So, if both Chocolate Coated Spinach Linux Orangina

[tcpdump-workers] how many stable branches to have

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Richardson
There was a discussion about what branches to possibly backport fixes to. Guy has related: Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Wireshark has: https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle * the current development branch (master, trunk, whatever); * the current stable

Re: [tcpdump-workers] how many stable branches to have

2015-05-21 Thread Guy Harris
On May 21, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Michael Richardson m...@sandelman.ca wrote: I have no problem with having lts- branches created for distros, and I'd rather do that than have old stable. I'd rather call them something like: wheezy-4.7 or centos7-4.7 So, if both Chocolate Coated