On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 16:44:38 -0800 Nex6|Bill <[email protected]> said:
> > On Nov 2, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 23:03:59 -0700 Nex6|Bill <[email protected]> said: > > > >> I see, E17 still used, i places like FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Bodhi but E19 is > >> in “released” mode. so, what would be the the stable, unstable and dev > >> branches? > > > > master == development and what becomes the next stable release. > > > > tags == a bunch of tags indicating that revision number was used for that > > release. > > > > branches == each stable release gets a branch - eg like enlightenment-0.17 , > > enlightenment-0.18, enlightenment-0.19 ... same for efl, elementary etc. > > (efl-1.8, efl-1.9, efl-1.10, efl-1.11). these branches accumulate patches > > (mostly cherrypicked from mater commits) and then get releases like 1.11.2, > > 0.19.1, etc. etc. > > > > it's a pretty simple system. master is the new hotness. branches are where > > stable releases live. tags are us ... tagging things that are released. > > > > we have a schedule for releases for efl (not e): > > > > https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/release_roadmap/ > > > > 12 week cycle. > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > > > > so; each “branch” E17, E18, E19 would be considered “stable” but the verious > OS teams and packaging teams are just being very conservative in staying with > E17. since its the sort of proven stable, and the dependancies may be easier > to target. yes - each branch is "stable" as you say - we only support 1 version back. that means right now we ONLY suport the e19 branch and the efl 1.11 branch etc. - until efl 1.12 is out or e20 is out - then we only support those stable branches while we work on master. so sticking to e17 == accepting no support from upstream -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
