On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Hannu Nyman <hannu.ny...@iki.fi> 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?
>
Personally I prefer the 2 year major release cycle. That is what
people like RedHat and commercial unices like to do. And maybe support
the old stables for another year or two.
> 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.
>
Can't stuff done in the bleeding-edge be backported to the stable?
>
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