Am Dienstag, 2. April 2019, 21:56:43 CEST schrieb Daniel-Constantin Mierla: > > Am Dienstag, 2. April 2019, 09:16:37 CEST schrieb Daniel-Constantin > > Mierla: > > (removed sr-users) > > > >> I am considering to release v5.0.8 to mark the end of official > >> maintenance for branch 5.0 on Thursday, April 4. If no major regression > >> will be introduced, this will be the last release from branch 5.0. > >> Afterwards, the stable branches maintained will be 5.1 and 5.2. > >> > >> In case you have in mind some specific commits that should get into 5.0 > >> branch, then reply and list them to be sure they are not missed. > > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > I thought 5.0 is already end of life, I only backported relevant fixes to > > the last two current stable branches (5.1 and 5.2). This was at least my > > understanding of our policy. > > > > 5.0.7 was released almost 10 month ago, the last commit on 5.0 branch was > > end of 2018. > > when a branch goes out of official maintenance time frame, we make a > last release from that branch to mark it explicitly (after the release > of a newer branch is done).
Hi Daniel, yes, I have read the IRC discussion from the last devel meeting about this topic. We could probably document it a bit more, I found only some summary on the old wiki about that policy. > The release of 5.2.x made 5.0 "ready" for end of maintenance, but we > didn't get the time to do the last 5.0.x. So, while is indeed somehow > late, it has to be done. > > On the other hand, lately each of these stable series got like 2 years > of maintenance, see also the discussion minutes on wiki from the last > IRC devel meeting. However, the last release in a stable branch was more > just a packaging from what that branch was at that moment, with just > critical issues backported, no much efforts put in it, because everyone > is advise to upgrade, being EoL anyhow. > > Specifically in this case, branch 5.0 has 44 commits pushed since > release of 5.0.7, so doing the 5.0.8 should at least catch those. > Tomorrow I will do a review and see what else worth pushing there. I will have also a look, there are a few patches that are more important then others and I will try to cherry-pick those into 5.0. Cheers, Henning -- Henning Westerholt - https://skalatan.de/blog/ Kamailio services - https://skalatan.de/services _______________________________________________ Kamailio (SER) - Development Mailing List [email protected] https://lists.kamailio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-dev
