5 Jan
2016
5 Jan
'16
3:57 p.m.
Ok, since we all agree:
* 6.4.7 is out current LTS
* 7.4 is not yet a LTS. It’ll become our LTS once 8.0 is released.
* I’ve documented this
at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/VersioningAndReleasePractices… and http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/VersioningAndReleasePractices…
* We’ve updated http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download to reflect the
decision
* It also means that we should still continue to backport important/critical bug fixes to
the 6.4.x branch and that we will probably have at least one more release of the 6.4.x
branch before 8.0 is out.
Thanks
-Vincent
On 4 Jan 2016 at 10:06:42, vincent(a)massol.net
(vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
Hi,
On 4 Jan 2016 at 09:59:14, Thomas Mortagne
(thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com(mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
In my understanding the rule is supposed to be 3
supported branches
(dev, stable, lts) so I guess we can say until 8.0 is released 7.4.x
is just the stable branch (and 6.4.x the lts). We pretty much always
have the same conversation every time we start a new major version
branch.
Well, the rule is 3 supported branches at most. It doesn’t mean there’s always 3
branches. For example when we release 7.3, we have stable = latest = 7.3 and we have only
2 branches.
So we have now 2 proposals:
* Proposal 1: Keep previous N-1.4.x LTS till the first bugfix release of the new N.4
release is released (i.e. N.4.1) and then do the switch.
* Proposal 2: Keep previous N-1.4.x LTS till the next cycle’s first stable release is
done (i.e. N.0) and then do the switch.
Proposal 2 is safer (it allows more time for having at least 2 bugfix releases of the
N-1.4). It means a bit more work since it means continuing to merge bugfixes to N-1.4.x a
bit longer.
I personally have a preference for Proposal 2.
WDYT?
Let’s agree and then we can document it in
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/VersioningAndReleasePractices (and add the
notion of LTS which we haven’t documented there btw).
Thanks
-Vincent
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:46 AM, vincent(a)massol.net wrote:
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > I see on http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download that the new
LTS is 7.4.
> >
> > I think that’s a bit dangerous because LTS means that users can put it in
production with eyes closed and we’re guaranteeing stability. In practice it’s a bit too
early to decide if 7.4 is really that stable.
> >
> > In the future I’d suggest that we wait till 7.4.1 (i.e. N.4.1) is released
because we remove the previous LTS and swap it with the new one.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >