Hello The Jessie freeze is scheduled for November.[1] The follow process is for development and continuous release of two main branches.
The pending interface and other disruptive changes are best released on experimental, under the 0.7 development series. This allows plenty of room for adjusting things based on feedback, etc. without disrupting the typical user of unstable. Development of these changes will be finalized no later than four months, which leaves three to four months to test and polish on unstable. Surely there will be non-disruptive changes, bug fixes and such, that are suitable for unstable in this time. A new branch stable-0.6 will be created to handle updates on that series, with regular releases to unstable. For the next four months: * master becomes 0.7, released to experimental; * stable-0.6 handles minor changes, released to unstable; * stable-0.6 is regularly merged to master to keep everything synchronized. After four months, in early July: * work on 0.7 is finalized and released to unstable as 0.8; * stable-0.6 is no longer active; * leaves four months for widespread testing, resolving issues, and final polish without disruptive changes. Such a process should accommodate all interests. Of course, use of feature branches etc. will continue, with only complete changes being merged to master or stable-0.6 (do not want 0.7 to be any more bumpy than it needs to). In terms of current wip: * dth/remove-libept is for 0.6; * wip-cmdline and dth/cachefile are 0.7 material. Regards [1] <https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html> _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
