On 04/19/19 13:11, liyi 00215672 wrote: > Hi Laszlo, > > 1. If we could put some human resources into stable-branch(LTS), so could you > give us an rough assessment, how many people should we put them into that? :)
Honestly: no idea. Maybe this could be estimated if all of the commits / BZs since the first stable tag, edk2-stable201808, were now reviewed in retrospect, as to whether each would be a candidate for backporting to a stable branch based on "edk2-stable201808". Alas, right now that means ~1500 commits, so not too easy either... Perhaps you could dedicate one person ATM to monitor / investigate this question. Monitor all of the new BZs and all of the patches posted to edk2-devel, and try to determine, working with the subject package maintainers, whether each issue is a bug (= not a new feature) and whether it affects, say, "edk2-stable201903". If it does, then the patch is likely a backport candidate. If this person managed to actually backport these patches, let's say to a personal stable branch for starters, and test them too, then in a few months we might have evidence that the process works -- and then the central repo could grow such an official stable branch. It's difficult to say how much extra time is needed, without researching it first in practice. > 2. If we make a stable-branch(LTS) into reality, we can invent some rules, > likes one year(or two years) to release a LTS version, the LTS version was > only merged the bug-fixed. After the one or two years ,we will release > another new LTS version and the older one LTS we would maintain for 3-5 > years. I'd suggest starting small, and aiming at 1 year (tops) at first, for keeping a stable branch alive. Thanks Laszlo -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39411): https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/39411 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/31222094/21656 Group Owner: devel+ow...@edk2.groups.io Unsubscribe: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
