[moving this to its own thread] On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 03:09:39PM -0600, David Champion wrote: > * On 22 Nov 2015, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > Personally, and I haven't discussed this with the other committers yet, > > I would like to release a 1.5.25 around February and try for a 1.6.0 > > August of next year. > > My feeling has long been that because 1.5 has become considerably more > complete than 1.4, and because it's been in common non-development use > for so long, it has already become the de facto "production" release. > I think we could relegate the even/odd versioning to history, apply a > 1.6 tag as soon as we clear all in-flight bugfix patches, and continue > with only one tagged series from there. (Development would simply be > untagged.)
I believe we're on the same page here. I was originally thinking about one more 1.5.x release just to give more time, but I'm definitely open to just pushing straight for a 1.6.0 as the next release. Recently, I've mostly been focusing on bug fixes; I have the SMTPUTF8 series I'd like to commit, but otherwise think a good next step would be working on any major bugs and reviewing external patches. I'm also open to moving away from an odd/even scheme, and just having releases. Our current stable/default branches do work well though, so I'd like to keep using those as we are today, to be able to quickly release security fixes if needed. > > During that time, I would like to take a look at a few of the external > > patches. Someone requested the trash patch, for one. > > I agree this would be a good step. We started that review with Debian > patches a while back but I don't think we finished. > > Mutt is a pretty aged project, with a lot of third-party patches. A > major consideration with patch merges at this stage of a project's > lifespan is maintenance responsibility - committer time is in short > supply, so we must be cautious what committers take full responsibility > for. That makes sense to me. It would be good to take a look at Debian and Gentoo's patches (any others?), but with an eye towards not taking on anything too crazy before 1.6.0. I know you have an extensive list of patches you maintain. Are there any you'd like to get committed before 1.6.0? What about the command-on-new-mail series? (No pressure, just asking...) -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA http://www.8t8.us/configs/gpg-key-transition-statement.txt
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