I'll look into putting out rc1 Sunday evening (UTC). 2016-11-16 6:06 GMT+00:00 Alexander Zaytsev <haz...@gmail.com>:
> 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. > -- --- 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.
