On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
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.
The problem is that the old stable isn't really being supported.
bugfixes for existing problems on old hardware may happen, but it's not
going to support new versions of packages, new packages, or new hardware.
RedHat releases significant updates to support new hardware, and they also
aren't dealing with hardware that changes as rapidly as OpenWRT does.
What percentage of the devices that are being built now (ignoring some you
can still buy in dusty boxes) are supported by the old stable release?
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
I think he meant to insert a 'not' in here
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?
in theory yes, in practice, the people who have the skill to do this are
far more interested in working on the new version, so it won't happen.
David Lang
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