[Spice-devel] Fixing the spice-gtk version scheme mess

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:17:25PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > FYI libvirt Fedora packages no longer carry patches as a general rule.
> > Instead for libvirt we aim to provide stable release branches with
> > trivial fixes applied. This ensures that the stable packages are
> > easily available to everyone, not merely Fedora users. I'd encourage
> > the same approach for spice too really.
> 
> That's what I discussed earlier too, not maintaining patches in fedora
> but in upstream stable branch, so I agree. How often do you do a
> "stable" release then? I would just call that a stable snapshot, hmm
> whatever..

There is no fixed time frame. They are simply done whenever there is
a critical mass of fixes to get out to users

Daniel
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