[ovs-dev] RFC: two-week feature freeze on master before branching

Ryan Moats rmoats at us.ibm.com
Sat Jul 30 11:46:46 UTC 2016



"dev" <dev-bounces at openvswitch.org> wrote on 07/29/2016 11:55:13 PM:

> From: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> To: dev at openvswitch.org
> Date: 07/29/2016 11:55 PM
> Subject: [ovs-dev] RFC: two-week feature freeze on master before
branching
> Sent by: "dev" <dev-bounces at openvswitch.org>
>
> We've done a good job of getting our features into master before
> branching for the 2.6 release on the proposed date of Aug. 1.  Thanks,
> everybody.  However, I know that some features targeted at 2.6 will be
> coming in next week, because various developers have already mentioned
> this.  This means that we'll end up doing a fair amount of backporting.
>
> Therefore, I want to propose an experiment of changing our process for
> this release.  If the experiment works out, we can consider doing the
> same thing for later releases.  My proposal is this:
>
>     - From Aug. 1 to Aug. 15, accept for master only bug fixes and
>       features already announced as targeted at 2.6.
>
>     - On Aug. 15, create the branch whatever is on master at the time.
>
>     - After Aug. 15, accept only bug fixes for 2.6 and un-freeze master.
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.

Sounds like a reasonable thing to try and see how it works.

Ryan



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