I think we shall release 4.1 release candidate immediately. However there are some pull requests which are worth merging prior 4.1.
Best Regards, Alexander On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 at 6:04 AM, Oskar Berggren <oskar.bergg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there anything preventing us from doing a 4.1 release candidate > immediately? > > > Going forward, I wonder if we should switch to a more flexible approach > regarding releases. I sort of like what the GTK project did recently, > namely that the first set of minor releases in each major release would NOT > promise API stability. > > In NH terms this could mean that: > > NH 4.0.x releases with no API changes. > > NH 4.1.x contains API additions but no API breaks (same as current scheme) > > NH 5.0 may (and will) contain API breakage. > > NH 5.1 may also break API > > NH 5.2 may also break API > > ... > > NH 5.something will eventually be declared new API stable version. Most > likely NH6 branch will open immediately as the new non API-stable branch. > > NH 5.something+1 must be API compatible with previous version. > > > > The benefit of this would be that API-breaking patches can more quickly be > accepted into a release, without waiting in the sidelines for a year or > two. User's can either elect to use the latest version, in which case they > must be prepared to handle API changes more frequently, or stay on an > API-stable branch until the next API-stable branch is declared. > > > This would no longer be strict "semantic versioning", but I'm not sure we > should care too much about that. > > > /Oskar > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nhibernate-development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nhibernate-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhibernate-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nhibernate-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
