I think the LTS version should only be released when necessary, not regularly.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 3:49 PM Sheng Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > My 0.2 about the LTS version, usually LTS is about the feature stable > version focusing on bugfix, which is rare to see for middleware or > component. The platform prefers this. > Mostly, people do compatible upgrades. > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > Twitter, wusheng1108 > > > Ming Wen <[email protected]> 于2020年10月18日周日 下午3:36写道： > > > Apache APISIX releases a version every month, so I don’t think we have > the > > energy to maintain and release the LTS version > > > > Thanks, > > Ming Wen, Apache APISIX & Apache SkyWalking > > Twitter: _WenMing > > > > > > vincixu <[email protected]> 于2020年10月18日周日 上午9:39写道： > > > > > LTS branch is looks good for me. > > > But I think we do not need "release branch", this will increase the > > > maintenance cost of the repository and the possibility of release > errors > > > (because the operation becomes more complex), but in fact it does not > > bring > > > much more than the tag-based management model benefit > > > > > > Ming Wen <[email protected]> 于2020年10月15日周四 下午5:37写道： > > > > > > > We recommend users to use Apache release, then how to release the > > version > > > > of LTS branch? > > > > > > > > Zexuan Luo <[email protected]>于2020年10月15日 周四下午5:33写道： > > > > > > > > > > I don't think we need the release branch, because we already have > > > > apache > > > > > release packages and git tags. > > > > > > > > > > The `release` branch is not a branch called release, but the branch > > > > starts > > > > > from the release tag, like LuaJIT's branch v2.0: > > > > > https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/tree/v2.0 > > > > > > > > > > > How long does LTS need to be maintained? One year or two years? > > > > > > > > > > I vote for two years. > > > > > > > > > > > And 1.5 is not a version suitable for long-term maintenance > > > > > > > > > > We can start to do it from 2.x when we have released 3.0 > > > > > > > > > > > Apache APISIX does not have the role of maintainer > > > > > > > > > > The `maintainer` is not a position, it can be anyone who have the > > time > > > > (or > > > > > who wrote the code caused the bug). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ming Wen <[email protected]> 于2020年10月13日周二 下午11:54写道： > > > > > > > > > > > > 2. release branch (the latest release, like the ongoing 2.0) > > > > > > I don't think we need the release branch, because we already have > > > > apache > > > > > > release packages and git tags. > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3. LTS branch (the highest minor number of release in the > > previous > > > > > major > > > > > > release, like 1.5) > > > > > > How long does LTS need to be maintained? One year or two years? > And > > > 1.5 > > > > > is > > > > > > not a version suitable for long-term maintenance, etcd v2 will be > > > > > obsolete > > > > > > soon. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bugfix will be manually ported to release branch by the > > maintainer. > > > > > > Apache APISIX does not have the role of maintainer. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Ming Wen, Apache APISIX & Apache SkyWalking > > > > > > Twitter: _WenMing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > YuanSheng Wang <[email protected]> 于2020年10月13日周二 下午9:59写道： > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think we can start to use this way after we release `2.0rc`. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ^_^ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:14 PM dabue <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > +1, it's very friendly to users. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Zexuan Luo > > > > > > > > Date: 2020-10-13 12:11 > > > > > > > > To: dev > > > > > > > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Maintain multiple branches of apisix > > > > > > > > Since we are going to release a new major version and > nowadays > > we > > > > > have > > > > > > > > plenty of users, I think it is time to bring out a serious > > > multiple > > > > > > > > branches maintain mechanism. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The mechanism will contain three kinds of branches: > > > > > > > > 1. master branch (the branch we submit all commits to) > > > > > > > > 2. release branch (the latest release, like the ongoing 2.0) > > > > > > > > 3. LTS branch (the highest minor number of release in the > > > previous > > > > > > major > > > > > > > > release, like 1.5) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > All PRs are still going to the master branch. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bugfix will be manually ported to release branch by the > > > maintainer. > > > > > > > > We will create a rc release on the release branch first, then > > > > create > > > > > a > > > > > > > > formal release a month later. > > > > > > > > Before the next minor release is created, we will create a > > patch > > > > > > release > > > > > > > > each month(2.0.1, 2.0.2, ...). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We will back port some important bugfix, for instance, > security > > > > > bugfix > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > > bugfix users required, to the LTS branch. > > > > > > > > A new patch release will be created based on the LTS branch > > each > > > > > three > > > > > > > > months(1.5.1, 1.5.2, ...). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *MembPhis* > > > > > > > My GitHub: https://github.com/membphis > > > > > > > Apache APISIX: https://github.com/apache/apisix > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ming Wen, Apache APISIX & Apache SkyWalking > > > > Twitter: _WenMing > > > > > > > > > >
