Caveat: I'm not a committer and I'm not on the dev mailing list, so this is just what I've pieced together from things I've observed. Some or all of it might be wrong.
Major releases have generally happened when there's a significant technological change that involves changing fundamental paradigms or technologies. We've been in major release 5 since 5.0.0 was released on December 7, 2007, so clearly annual major releases aren't the plan. Major release 6 was originally slated to be the adoption of the Apollo codebase (technological change), but that development effort stalled and the HornetQ codebase was donated to the Apache Foundation, so it's now expected that 6.x will be the version based on HornetQ. For minor releases, you're right that the goal is 1-2 per year, so fixes get to the community without too much of a wait. Patch releases happen if necessary to fix critical bugs that can't wait for the next minor release; they generally are triggered by security or performance bugs, though once there's going to be a patch release, less-critical bug fixes are sometimes backported as well. Some minor releases have multiple, while others have none; it's all based on need. Tim On May 15, 2015 9:45 AM, "asaran" <[email protected]> wrote: > Request you to please let me know whats the difference between minor > release > and major release. > > Looking at the release cycle it appears we do two minor release a year and > a > major release a year. Please confirm, Do we have any link that explans the > future road map of AMQ? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Minor-Release-vs-Major-Release-tp4696576.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
