On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 00:55, Gerald Combs <[email protected]> wrote:
> We currently have three active release branches: 3.0, 2.6, and 2.4. This > is because we support each release branch for a set amount of time > (typically 24 months after the initial .0 release) and our last three .0 > releases were less than 12 months apart. However, having many active > branches can sometimes cause confusion[1] and far fewer people download the > "Old Old Stable" release than the "Old Stable" or "Stable" releases. Would > it make sense to have only two release branches active at any given time, > e.g. by adjusting our release branch lifetimes to "24 months or whenever we > have two newer active branches, whichever comes first"? > Happy with that. > > We've also been using odd minor numbers for development releases and even > minor numbers for stable releases[2] for many years now. We don't make very > many development releases and instead tend to have one or more release > candidates after branch is created. Would it make sense to drop the > even/odd scheme and make the next major release 3.1.0? > I don't see any need to change that unless it makes the release process easier. I think I agree with Ander's comment, what would the value be in the master branch(es) if we changed this? > > [1] > https://ask.wireshark.org/question/8433/why-are-multiple-versions-released-at-once/ > [2] https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/ReleaseNumbers > -- Graham Bloice
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