Hello. On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 07:46, Simon wrote: > On 11/26/2013 04:09 AM, Tom Hacohen wrote: > > On 25/11/13 17:38, Guillaume Friloux wrote: > >> On 25/11/2013 16:48, Tom Hacohen wrote: > >>> Hey guys, > >>> > >>> Soon we'll have 1.8, which means (unless someone said otherwise and I've > >>> missed that announcement) support for the 1.7 branch will stop. No more > >>> backporting or anything for that branch. > >>> > >>> However, there are still some commits backported to those branches that > >>> have yet to be released. I think we need to announce a last stable > >>> release date and release them before we stop using them for good. > >>> > >>> Thoughts? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Tom. > >>> > >> From my memory, since 1.7.9, there has been less than 5 five commits in > >> legacy/ (one from me that is very important, at least for me and the > >> servers i put efls on). For my case, im using 1.7.9 release + my patch > >> added locally. > >> > > There are also a few commits from me. For e17 and evas. > > > >> Considering the number of fixes, maybe we should wait for 1.8 to be > >> released to release 1.7.10 too (because we might have last minute fixes > >> in 1.8, before release). > > That's the plan. Release that after 1.8 instead of saying "we are done". > > This might be obvious to some, just wanted to make sure we have it set > > in stone. > As there are a large number of distro's now shipping 1.7.* some of which > may need to support it for another 2 years + there may be the need for > another release if someone finds a critical security issue, but seen as > one hasn't been found yet i hope that won't need to happen.
Security or potential data corruption are fixes that should definitely go back into 1.7.x and get a release after a while. If anybody finds something like that getting fixed in master but not backported let us know. We might have just overlooked the implications from some fixes. regards Stefan Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
