Re: Apache Code Relese (Was Re: Side-effects of removing (void))

[David S. Alessio]

> On Jan 13, 2020, at 5:14 AM, Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I think once the workflow is complete we should froze the master and
>> keep accepting patch into dev branch. This is my point of view, I
>> don't know if we will implement it.
> 
> I think we should create a release branch and freeze nothing. Versioning will 
> need to extend to 3 numbers, so the next would be 8.4.0.  Every release will 
> have to live on a branch with multiple release candidates up to the released 
> version, perhaps tagged like nuttx-8.4.0-rc1.  If bugs are found after the 
> release, the code could be re-released as 8.4.1 and the bugfix merged back to 
> main.
> 

I’d like to suggest the release branches be named:
        releases/8.4.0-rc1
        releases/8.4.0
        releases/8.4.1

etc.

As 8.4.0-r1 evolves and converges on a stable release, it can be merged into 
8.4.0.

Regards,
-david