Hi, Stanislav raised a good question of a release planning. I'll try to cover my thoughts here.
We are getting close to that time of year with many vacations so I'd like to see us to release as much as possible before blending into white (or blue, or green) serenity. Rob and I just released FreeIPA 4.8.2. There will probably be another release in December to collect an expected set of bug-fixes as we work on FIPS mode support across FreeIPA, MIT Kerberos, and Samba. FreeIPA presence in various distributions can be tracked with Repology project: https://repology.org/project/freeipa/versions For FreeIPA 4.7 series, there are three major users: Fedora 29, Debian-derivatives, and ALT Linux. RHEL 8 already moved to FreeIPA 4.8. Fedora 29 will become unsupported in early December 2019 according to the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedule As FreeIPA 4.7 was a transitional Python 3 release, we expect to focus more on FreeIPA 4.8 and don't do much of backports to 4.7 branch going forward. So the idea is to have one more FreeIPA 4.7 release and then only do security-based releases. ipa-4-7 branch right now contains 65 commits on top of FreeIPA 4.7.3 release. About 38% of them (25 out of 65) are related to tests and PR CI. If distributions that keep working with FreeIPA 4.7 need to keep it alive, I'd like to see more involvement upstream from those. But probably moving to 4.8 is easier? For FreeIPA 4.6 series, one of the major users is RHEL 7. It is already in a state where RHEL development cannot accept any requests for enhancements (RFE) and there is little chance for any version rebase, so picking up patches from upstream is OK there. On the other hand, FreeIPA 4.6 is the last Python 2 release. ipa-4-6 branch right now contains 57 commits on top of FreeIPA 4.6.6. We can release 4.6.7 version to collect the changes for those distributions that need Python 2. It seems, AUR and Deepin are the most affected here as other distros moved on to 4.7 and 4.8. -- / Alexander Bokovoy Sr. Principal Software Engineer Security / Identity Management Engineering Red Hat Limited, Finland _______________________________________________ FreeIPA-devel mailing list -- freeipa-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/freeipa-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
