I think we should continue with the original plan: Bug fixes go into the patch
level version. New features go into minor releases. Changes to the
architecture
or APIs should go into the next major release. By having this clear
delineation, for example, those on 7.1.x know what to expect out of a patch
level release and will need to understand that to get any new features
available, they will have to upgrade to the next minor release version.
Thanks,
Steven
On 2/7/18, 3:52 PM, "Leif Hedstrom" <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2018, at 11:47 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> discussed this with a few of you, but I’d like to take this to the
community. There’s some requests to get features back ported to 7.1.x, which
I’m for now postponing to a possible future 7.2.x release. This was the
intention of the proposal we agreed upon last year, to bring stability as well
as agility to our release process.
>
> Now, I’m not strongly opposed to allowing for new features to go into say
a v7.1.3 release, however, before we do so, I’d like to make sure that this is
*really* what we want to do going forward. I care mostly about consistency,
such that there’s no arguing as to “why did amc’s feature get into v7.1.3,
whereas my future has to wait until v7.2.0 or v8.0.0”.
>
> Fwiw, 7.1.1 - 7.1.3 thus far has avoided adding new features to the 7.1.x
branch. So going forward, I think we have two options:
>
> 1) Allow “safe” (where “safe” is defined by the RM) features to go into
any patch releases.
>
> 2) Stick with the original plan, and only allow new features in either
major, or minor releases (e.g. v7.2.0 or v8.0.0).
>
>
>
>
> If we change our policy to #1, I think we should eliminate the plans for
doing minor releases, i.e. v8.0.x will be the only release in the v8.x release
cycle.
>
Forgot, there’s a column with the current v7.2.0 candidates on this page:
https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/projects/3?
I imagine if we change policy to #1 above, we’ll merge all these into
v7.1.3 or v7.1.4.
— leif
