I think a lot of distro makers would be comforted by the idea of a stable branch and feel more comfortable in upgrading to the latest "stable" for distribution into their embedded products...
... regardless of your success in dealing the backward compatability issues. You could periodically obsolete a given stable branch, much like other systems, like linux do, every year or two. it's also an opportunity to charge for support, if you like. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Simon Kelley <si...@thekelleys.org.uk> wrote: > Thus far, dnsmasq has not maintained separate stable and development > branches. One reason for this is that there's been a pretty strong > policy of backwards-compatibility, so the penalty for upgrading to the > latest release is low: we've almost certainly not broken your config, or > changed behaviour. On the other hand, sometimes fixes for bugs have been > delayed by work on features. > > It looks like there are a couple of regressions in 2.69 which need early > correction. The dnsmasq way of this would be to release 2.70 rapidly > with fixes, but once serious development starts on the next set of > features, the ability to do that is lost. The alternative would be to > open stable and development branches, and make a 2.69.1 bugfix release. > There's some cost in doing that, of course. More repo complexity and > work in moving fixes into the development as well as stable releases. > Git makes that much easier than before, of course. > > I'm interested in opinions for and against the status-quo or a new > stable/devel split. > > Cheers, > > > Simon. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss -- Dave Täht NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
