Hi Rajani, I've already started a thread on user/dev ML around LTS releases, we should have discussion there.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Rajani Karuturi <raj...@apache.org> wrote: > I dont like the idea of release manager cherry-picking/backporting the > fixes to the release branches. > > As a community we are supporting past two releases. ie) at this point we > have to support 4.3 and 4.4 > As a developer/contributor, if I feel a bug is relevant for 4.3 I should > be committing it to all the 4.3+ releases. Otherwise it would be a > nightmare for people trying to upgrade later. > If and when a release is required, we should release from that branch. > +1 that's the ideal case and everyone should do it but since I had to backport more than 90 fixes from 4.4/4.5/master to 4.3 many of us were clearly not doing that. In many opensource projects such as Linux, it's common to see different people maintaining a certain branch or major release. I want to do the same for 4.3 until a stable 4.5.x or 4.6.x is out that is fairly tested and used in the wild. Everyone is welcome to do it for any branches they do. Regards. > > ~Rajani > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> ok, so that would go in 442to443? >>> >> >> Yes, but do you plan to do a 4.4.3? The whole debate around maintaining >> 4.3 vs 4.4 comes down to stakeholder's interests, you've shared that you >> may not want to put a lot of efforts on 4.4 branch since 4.5.0 is around >> but if I'm mistaken and since you're the release manager you should >> backport changes applicable on 4.4 and do a 4.4.3 release. That would be >> great for 4.4.x users. >> >> Before the patch could be ported, Hari will need to use an empty upgrade >> path from 4.4.2 to 4.4.3 and change versions in pom files etc. Hari let me >> know if you can do that in your backport or if Daan or I need to add that >> for you. Thanks. >> >> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> > Daan, >>> > >>> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Daan Hoogland < >>> daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> If this contains db upgrade code, where did this go in 4.3? In the >>> >> review request I see changes to 442to450 upgrade files so this should >>> >> not go in 4.3 or 4.4. What am I missing? >>> > >>> > >>> > For 4.3, the upgrade path (it's just data migration no schema changes >>> so >>> > easily backportable) is from 4.3.1 to 4.3.2 in Upgrade431to432 class. >>> > >>> > The fix simply goes through existing VRs and updates their RAM size, no >>> > schema changes here only data migrations. >>> > >>> > Regards. >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daan >>> >> >> >