Re: Post-2.12 release plans

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Once 2.12 is out and we've succeeded in setting up GUB3 on
> kainhofer, I'll become the Release Manager.  I have two ideas on
> how to change things:
>
> 1)  Move to a linux kernel type of releases: instead of having
> separate devel and stable branches, we just do everything in 2.12.
> In some ways, we've been doing this already; we haven't touched
> 2.10 in quite a while.
>
> 2)  Keep the distinction between stable and devel, but tie it to
> the input syntax, and allow for much faster releases.  In
> particular, there would be *no* convert-ly rules for 2.12.  New
> constructs would be fine, but any patches that would change
> existing syntax would be delayed until 2.13.

Sounds like an excellent idea - I would exempt changes introduced
after 2.12.0 from the no syntax changes, though.

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