El Dijous, 25 de setembre de 2014, a les 21:30:54, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: > 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.
I can spend my time doing multiple releases or I can spend my time doing more reviews of the big pile of reviews, sincerely i prefer to do the reviews and if distros are going to be unhappy, well they have two jobs to do, get unhappy and then get happy again :D Bottom line is, with reduced time i prefer to go to a "simpler" release schedule that lets us advance faster. Cheers, Albert > > 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 _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
