[Spice-devel] spice-server 0.14 release plans

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 09:12:10AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > I really want to get a 0.14.0 release out of the door soon, but the
> > > amount of patches going in spice-server lately is not making me feel
> > > very comfortable with cutting a release at an arbitary time.
> > > 
> > > What I would like to do:
> > > - slow down on the amount of patches going in for a while (personally,
> > >   I'd postpone the glib alloc patches which haven't been pushed/reviewed
> > >   yet)
> > > - cut a 0.13.91 release soon (ideally tomorrow, but that's going to
> > >   depend on the amount of unreviewed patches sent before this email,
> > >   which should get a chance to get in  :)
> > > - once 0.13.91 is released, have a code freeze where only bug fixes get
> > >   in
> > > - have a 0.14.0 release a week or so after that
> > > 
> > > I understand this is quite a short notice for communicating this plan,
> > > it can always be discussed/refined/adjusted :) All in all, I think we
> > > should be in a fairly good shape for a release.
> > > 
> > > Christophe
> > 
> > Why not using a branch?
> > We can either branch for 0.14 and use master for normal developing or
> > branch for 0.16, have regressions in master and then branch again
> > for 0.14 and merge 0.16 into master.
> 
> If we create a branch, and patches keep coming in for master, nobody is
> going to pay attention to the branch. So no, no branch before 0.14.0
> 
> Christophe
> 

Then the second option make sense.
Why nobody won't pay attention ?

Frediano