On 7 May 2013 20:34, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Devs, > > We're switching over to time-based releases. > > I took a moment to review our existing release branches today, and I have > prepared a list of recommendations for you. Please review these and give me > feedback. > > By "drop support" I mean "make official" and while this is ostensibly the > case for a few of these, what I _really_ mean is "delete the branch". I see > no reason to keep this stuff around. It would make my life a lot easier if > we could clean this stuff up. > > I'm not a Git expert, so I am relying on someone to sanity check this. > Remember: if we ever want to patch up a security issue in an unsupported > release, we will be issuing a patch. So I am assuming what we'll want to do > is patch against the last tag for that release line. No need for the branch > at all as far as I can tell. > > If nobody objects in 72 hours, I will assume lazy consensus and proceed. > > ## 0.10.x line and before > > Really old stuff. > > Recommendation: > > * Drop support of these release lines > * Delete the branches > > ## 0.11.x line > > First release: March 2010 (three years old) > > Unreleased changes: > > * Fix for frequently edited documents in multi-master deployments being > duplicated in _changes and _all_docs. > > Recommendation: > > * Do not release these changes > * Drop support of this release line > * Delete the branch > > ## 1.0.x line > > First release: July 2010 (three years old) > > No unreleased changes. > > Recommendation: > > * Drop support of this release line > * Delete the branch > > ## 1.1.x line > > First release: July 2011 (two years old) > > No unreleased changes. > > Recommendation: > > * Drop support of this release line > * Delete the branch > > ## 1.2.x line > > First release: April 2012 (one year old) > > No unreleased changes. > > 1.3.x line is backwards compatible with 1.2.x. > > Recommendation: > > * Drop support of this release line > * Delete the branch > > ## 1.3.x line > > First release: April 2013 (one month old) > > Unreleased changes: > > * Whatever bugfixes are on master or in branches right now. > > Recommendation: > > * Release 1.3.1 this month. > > Thanks, > > -- > NS >
+1. You might consider tagging the last commit in each branch before you dump it. e.g. you have all those nice changes in NEWS/CHANGES etc that you slaved away on, in the above proposal they'd be lost.
