[Spice-devel] spice-server 0.14 release plans

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 09:18:39AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

First and second options are the same with just different branch names
;)

> Why nobody won't pay attention ?

The goal is to try to focus more on testing for bugs and regressions.
With a development branch (0.16 or master depending on the option you
pick), it will be business as usual, patches for the development branch
will be sent, will need reviews, several iterations, ... with the result
that less time will be dedicated to 0.14.
I'm intentionally trying to keep the freeze short to avoid blocking
new work for too long...

Christophe