----- Original Message ----- > 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.
>From Fedora point of view I would welcome the stable branch (version) that will be maintained for some time and have the development branch separate. It is already against Fedora updates policy to bring new functionality into already released version, it if could change the behaviour. Therefore dnsmasq 2.69 with DNSSEC is still in Fedora rawhide and will be included in the next Fedora version (21). If you decide to keep the current style of development, we can live with that, too. However the current state makes it harder if one want to maintain some released version of dnsmasq and from time to time just fix a bug. Although you are sticking to backward-compatibility, sometimes one (especially some distro) don't want to rebase to the latest version as it includes new features that are not necessarily needed. Regards, -- Tomas Hozza Software Engineer - EMEA ENG Developer Experience PGP: 1D9F3C2D Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss