Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2014, 00:51:06 schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > Hi all, we released 0.26.0 five months ago. And we have no schedule for > 0.28.0 (or i can't find no email discussing it). > > This is something that has been happening repeateadly, we "forget" when the > next feature release or we need to delay it because we only release it > every so often and we *really* need a feature in. > > I'd like to propose a change from having bugfix releases every month and > feature releases every ~6 months to just having a release every month. > > In that release we would introduce both bugfixes and features.
Hey Albert, first of all thanks a lot for your work, it's been a real pleasure packaging poppler. Especially also since soname / ABI / API changes have recently become much more rare. To be honest I do not care too much when exactly you do the releases. However, stable / bug fix / security fix branches (in the sense that ABI and library sonames remain constant) are cool and useful. If you change ABI regularly and do not differentiate between patch and feature upgrades, you do the same as attempted in KF5, namely shifting the maintenance of crash / security / bugfix backports to the distributions. So yes, distros won't like the change. Gentoo has actually the smallest problem since we can just tell people "update and rebuild reverse dependencies". Our package manager is set up to automatically rebuild everything linking to libpoppler.so when a version with new soname is installed (and only afterwards removes the old library). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) [email protected] http://www.akhuettel.de/ _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
