On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 13:25, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de>
wrote:

> On Mi, 31.07.19 12:57, Tomasz Kłoczko (kloczko.tom...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > As usually that type of versioning convention is rubbish and it only adds
> > more work on packaging layer.
> > Why you guys did not released that as v243.99 ?
>
> I like my bikesheds blue.
>

Yes. Today is a bit sunny in London.
Thanks for asking .. and ignoring that rc<num> versioning convention adds
some overhead on packaging layer.
Your bikeshed argument is really powerful so I can only give up.

> Other thing is that looks like systemd devel cycle elongated and it cased
> > that some stabilisation fixes are only committed in master branch with
> all
> > other changes.
> >
> > Proposal for next systemd devel cycle:
> > - create devel branch and commit all devel changes in that branch only +
> > stable fixes
> > - commit in master branch only stable fixes and release more ofthen
> v244.1,
> > v244.2 and so on (one time a month or even more often depends on
> importance
> > of the fixes)
> > - release candidates starting from v244.99
> > - when everything in devel will be ready just merge devel branch to
> master
> > and tag it as new major release.
>
> Are you volunteering to do the work for this? Or do you just expect us
> upstream to maintain twice the amount of releases?
>
> We don't want to be consumed in just doing release mangament. It's
> hard enough, and we definitely prefer if developers focus on one
> master, not many, and stop developing new stuff while we are in release
> mode. This means, doing parallel branches for upstream development is
> not in the cards, sorry. Either everyone stabilizes or everyone works
> on new stuff.
>
> Note that there's a "stable" backport tree maintained outside of the
> main repo:
>
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable


In other words you asking me voluntary do the job which is already done.
Nice. OK, I'll take that job.
kloczek
-- 
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