On 03/03/14 14:24, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:57:24 +0000 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said: > >> On 03/03/14 10:10, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 01:50, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote: >>>> Thanks for the stable branch maintenance. >>>> >>>> Question. Until when are you going to support 1.8 stable release? >>> >>> A really good question. :) I asked this myself several times now >>> without having an good answer. >>> >>> It boils down to how much time I have left for it. I'm doing the >>> release stuff alone right now and with 1.10 starting to form as well >>> as 1.9 needs attention 1.8 will most likely be less important for me. >>> >>> I was hoping to do 1 or 2 more releases and maybe have 1.9.x in such a >>> shape that people are willing to upgrade. Hard to say if that is >>> realistic or not. We will have a 1.8 release this week. The next >>> depends on how much things get backported not only to 1.9 but also >>> 1.8. >>> >>> Maybe I don't even have to decide myself because no new commits show >>> up in the 1.8 branches. :) >>> >>> If anyone wants to do long-term maintenance for 1.8 please let me >>> know. I would happily hand it over to someone if they want to go with >>> it for longer. >>> >>> Same goes for 1.9 just contact me if you want to help out. >> >> Officially, at the moment we only do: >> Backport to 1.9 when there's something to backport, backport to 1.8 when >> it's super serious and you feel like it. :) >> >> I think we should drop 1.8, and maybe come up with an LTS model, so >> people will have LTS releases they can count on. No idea though, as I >> personally prefer bleeding edge. > > until we have manpower for lts - i say no. upgrade to get updates. simple > >
Yeah, you missed the whole irc chat about it. I'm just saying: 1.8 gets on critical support (similar to what 1.7 got back in the days), and we should consider an lts approach in the future. -- Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
