On 12/09/2011 06:01 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:39:37AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
FWIW in libguestfs we have such a policy. Every few weeks I evaluate
_all_ commits along the development branch and cherry pick those that
meet this policy back to the stable branch, followed by making a new
stable release. Here is the policy:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_version_numbers
from "Our criteria for backporting changes are ..."
Out of curiosity, what's the commit rate for libguestfs and what's the release
schedule?
I tried this years ago with QEMU and while it resulted in a very active stable
branch, it was a huge amount of work, particularly as we got about half way
through the next development cycle.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
For completeness, here is an example stable branch containing
cherry-picked commits:
http://fedorapeople.org/git/?p=rjones/public_git/libguestfs.git;a=log;h=refs/remotes/origin/stable-1.14
Compare to the master branch to see which commits did and didn't make
it in.
Rich.
