On 06/21/2012 11:40 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > Hi guys, > > I ask your suggestions about release management. > > One thing that is proving to be a good decision was the creation of the > 'next' branch. We're able to control what's going to 'master' better > with it. But right now, we have our release tags referencing commits in > master: > > 0.14.0 -> commit in master > 0.14.1 -> commit in master > > So on and so forth... > > Now with Fedora packaging (and possibly other use cases), it is > necessary that we extend the life cycle of a release, by having release > based branches, say 0.14, and we would cherry pick fixes from master for > an extended period of time, so we can release 0.14.2, 0.14.3,... so on > and so forth.
Will minor, say, 0.14.3 differ only on fixes when compared to 0.14.2? Or will it be a new branch off master? Anyway, I believe the branches could be created on demand (if a bug is reported a fix is needed) based on tags. > > I'm inclined to go ahead and start doing it, but I'd like to hear your > opinion about it. > > Cheers, > > Lucas > > _______________________________________________ > Autotest mailing list > Autotest@test.kernel.org > http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list Autotest@test.kernel.org http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
