Debian moves at glacial speeds, though :)
At the speed that HBase is still going, porting to stable even after a few weeks, might be a monumental task. On the other hand it would make for stable releases. ----- Original Message ----- From: Li Pi <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:17 PM Subject: Re: HBase releases... We could do a Debian style release system with stable and feature branches. Once the feature branches get stabilized - they can be ported to stable. On Oct 12, 2011 10:56 AM, "Stack" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Jesse Yates <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If we can release more frequently, with truly stable releases, then more > > people will be more likely to run clusters with codebases that are closer > to > > trunk. Therefore they will have more benefits like bug fixes and > performance > > increases without the worry that they are running unstable/buggy code. > > However, there is a big 'if' here - if we can make sure that the builds > that > > go out frequently are really rock solid. > > > > We can't afford to go backwards when it comes to perceived stability. > Its a separate discussion -- belongs more in the testing thread that > has been running of late -- but I'd like to talk about how we can > ensure stability goes up as time goes by even as we cross major > release versions. > > St.Ack >
