On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:42:29AM +0000, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:49 PM Ronny Pfannschmidt <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 14.04.2017 14:17, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 05:51:34PM +0000, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> > >> What if we instead of considering features, we released a new minor
> > version
> > >> periodically, for say every month or two? We could adopt the same for
> > bug
> > >> fix releases, like each two weeks.
> > > FWIW what GitLab[1] does is a monthly feature release, and patch
> > > releases whenever needed. I don't think it's a good idea to have a fixed
> > > release cycle for patches, but it sounds like it could work quite well
> > > for feature releases indeed.
> >
> 
> I'm curious, why do you think it is not a good idea to have a fixed or
> semi-fixed release cycle for patches?

Sorry for the late answer, somehow that mail made itself comfortable in
my inbox for a while ;)

I just think it doesn't scale well. If we do something which breaks a
lot of testsuites we don't want to wait with doing a patch release - and
at the same time if we just have some doc fix or even a change which
isn't user-facing at all, doing a release just causes unnecessary work.
Even if we automated our part, releases always mean work for downstreams
like distributions or users with pinned dependencies.

Because of that, I think it makes more sense to be a bit more flexible
with patch releases.

Florian

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