* On 22 Nov 2015, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: 
> > 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.

Agreed - but in particular, I think that the 1.6 blockers in Trac are
too big.  They've been blocking 1.6 for years, and I think we're to the
point now where 1.6 is more important than those particular issues.  I
think that we should bite only what we can chew for 1.6.

> 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.

I'm fine with stable/default branching.  I assume this workflow: commit
to default, merge to stable, tag releases from stable.  I think the
versioning split just hasn't really worked in our favor.


> 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...)

Yes, I would like to (mainly that one and the keywords series), but if
1.6 is otherwise ready I don't want to be the reason it's not coming
out.  I may actually have some time to work on this in the next 5-6
weeks though.

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David Champion • [email protected]

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