On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
Hi,
just to bring out another potential policy change to the full bright light:
There was discussion that in order to tidy up commit log, I should no
longer merge up branches. As I don't have the time to do manually what
currently git does for me, this means I will stop providing fixes for
versions other than the currently supported one (8.4.2 at the moment).
When I discussed this in Adiscon internally, we saw quite some advantage
for us as well: if the unsupported versions are really unsupported, people
hopefully would be more likely to update to the current versions. Also, it
means a bit of less work for me, which frees up a little bit of resources.
I honestly do not know how many folks at all really depend on e.g.
v7-stable. My impression is that many, if not most, distros tend to base on
a then-current version and apply patches to this baseline.
So my question is: do we need to keep fixing the old stuff ... or can we
really abandon that?
My opinion.
bugfixes that have no work-around may be reasonable to add to the last version
before the current one, but going back further than that, or including fixes for
bugs that can be worked around is doing too much work.
maintaining an old version with the idea of only incorporating bugfixes to it
over time is a lot of work, and it's fairly error prone (not to mention the
ongoing debate as to what types of changes are safe to backport). Maintinance of
such trees should be handed off from the main maintainer to someone who has
interest in doing all this work. In the cae of rsyslog, the distros are doing
some version of this. It may be reasonable for the distro maintainers to step up
and maintain offical 'stable' versions for a while (hopefully getting some
standardization beween the distros so they can share the work)
But for this we really need feedback from the distro maintainers.
David Lang
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