On 15/08/12 20:43, Hannu Nyman wrote: > On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 12:09:15 PM "John Crispin" > <j...@phrozen.org> wrote: >> As you may have noticed we are getting prepared for the Attitude > Adjustment release. > > Does that also mean that Backfire is going to be retired? With no formal > 10.03.2 forthcoming? > > Is the plan that AA will be the new "stable branch" and the trunk gets a > new name after the release? > > Have you thought about the future release strategy? Continuing the > current practice of "a major release every two years with some interim > releases"? Or Firefox/Chrome type of new releases more rapidly, e.g. > every 6 months? > > Based on Backfire's recent history, I believe that trying to maintain a > stable branch for too long periods (like over 2 years for Backfire) is > going to succeed, as the trunk will get too much ahead of the stable > branch and as the developers' attention tends to be on the bleeding-edge > trunk, the stable branch is almost dead in practice. I suggest Openwrt > to rethink the release strategy towards a bit more rapid "stable" releases.
Hi after reading your mail I think giving you any answer other than the one you already gave yourself wont make you happy ... Thanks for your input ... John _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
