07/02/11 18:53, intrigeri: > Hi, > > Now that all serious Squeeze-related regressions I know of have been > fixed in our devel branch, I'd like to start stabilizing a 0.7 release > based on Debian Squeeze. > > The main issue I have with this process is that work has been started > not very long ago on two pretty interesting features (wipe memory on > media removal, minimal bridges support); big parts of this work are > done, but it seems these features still need some more care before we > can dare announcing and supporting any of those. I would be delighted > if these features could make it into 0.7, but I would prefer not to > treat it as release blockers. Also, it seems to me both are somehow > optional, i.e. users who don't actively do anything to use one of > these will not suffer from it being not perfect > > => I think we should release 0.7 with these features in half-done > state in case their implementation / documentation lags behind the > rest of the stabilization and testing work. > > I therefore propose merging the current devel branch into the testing > branch and partially freeze the testing branch; changes that may enter > testing during the freeze period would be: > > A. fixes for grave bugs > B. fixes for not-so-grave bugs when we are sure the fixes won't break > anything else > C. non-invasive enhancements of the two features I was talking of, > i.e. they must not touch areas that can break other stuff > > I propose this merging + freeze to happen at the end of the current > week in order to leave a bit more time to work on the two > aforementioned features.
This sounds like a pretty good approach to me. I'm in favour. > Depending on the state of these features at the time of the release, > we might or might not mention it in the announcement, or announce it > as experimental and unsupported, or whatever we feel like is > appropriate. I'd say we don't mention anything about them before we're positive they work properly (I don't think we want to risk getting a reputation of shipping half-baked solutions). We'll see if time allows for that to happen before the 0.7 release. Cheers!
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