Hi All, Now that I have slightly more time on my hands and to make the next enlightenment release easier to manage I am proposing to volunteer to maintain efl 1.18 as a LTS as it will be less effort then backporting patches 1 by 1 into our build system.
Why 1.18? It aligns best with our release cycle, which feature freezes in September and releases in the first week of November. Based on the success of this I will probably consider doing similar for every August efl release. I would expect to maintain the release for 18-24 months from the initial release date taking over from the 1.18.X release when or soon after 1.19 is released. I am not planning to backport every possible fix, generally only issues reported by users or that manifest either in enlightenment or another efl based app, As such it would be a rare occurrence where I backported a fix that didn't have an associated bug report, the author of the fix would probably have to contact me directly. A example of something I probably would backport is 4d6a8a7fce51b5654404226668a27d52d1e30eb3 - T3348, This example has a bug report containing nice info such as someone has seen the crash and this commit will fix it. Examples of things i'm less likely to backport include commits with comments such as "while working on blah I noticed xxx it was probably wrong and broken and fixed it." or "Potential fix noitced by coverty its likely know one will ever see this issue". To further make this easier it would be nice if fixes include the version the bug was introduced in if its easy to figure out or a more general this bug has been around for few years or was introduced in the last release. The other reason for writing this now is to gauge interest from other projects about collaborating / working together on this. There is also a chance that I'll do something similar with enlightenment releases but that will probably depend on the timing of releases and which release I decide to include in the next openSUSE release. Feel free to raise any concerns or issues here or on IRC. Cheers -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adeliade Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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