[libnice] libnice release philosophy

Chad Phillips chad at apartmentlines.com
Fri Sep 2 22:46:02 UTC 2016


Would you consider sharing that magic formula with the list? :)

I’m asking because I know for a fact that 0.1.13 will not work for me, it
causes crashes, and I very much would like the most stable version of this
library that I can run.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Olivier Crête <olivier.crete at collabora.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I certainly don't ! I'm currently shipping 0.1.13 + about half of the
> patches from master (the rest are not relevant for that specific
> use-case)...
>
> Olivier
>
> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 15:19 -0700, Chad Phillips wrote:
>
> Thanks Olivier. One more question: do you run the latest git master in
> production?
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Olivier Crête <
> olivier.crete at collabora.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There is no great philosophy, it's mostly based on available time and
> accumulated patches. There are not many contributors who understand the
> whole code bases and the different use-cases, in particular because we
> support many different variants which makes it quite tricky as fixing one
> may break another.
>
> There is no official recommendation as to which version to use, it's
> really a "what is best for you".
>
>
> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 09:54 -0700, Chad Phillips wrote:
>
> The purpose of my message is not to ask ‘when is the next release’, but
> instead to understand the philosophy of the libnice team in regards to
> providing official releases.
>
> It’s been 16 months and 150 commits since 0.1.13, the last official
> release.
>
> Are future releases planned? If so, what are the conditions under which
> the team would cut a release?
>
> As it currently stands, what is the official recommendation for running
> libnice in production, 0.1.13, latest git master, or something else?
>
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