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Re: Release stream openness indications in STATUS

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:24:06 +0100

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:14 -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Would anybody mind us adopting a habit of maintaining, in the STATUS files
> of our release stream branches, our official position on the maintenance of
> that branch? I thinking something like the following, to be placed at the
> very top of the branch STATUS file:
>
> 1.0.x - 1.3.x:
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> * *
> * This release stream is closed to further changes. *
> * *
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> 1.4.x:
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> * *
> * This release stream has been superceded by 1.X, but *
> * remains open to receive fixes for serious and *
> * security-related bugs. *
> * *
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> 1.5.x:
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> * *
> * This release stream is open to bug fixes. *
> * *
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> It's just a tiny little way for folks to quickly know the status of a given
> release stream without doing version arithmetic and being aware of our
> 2-streams-open policy or exceptions to it.
>
> Thoughts?

Reasonable, but shouldn't we (as well or instead) be closing dead
branches by deleting them from the /branches directory? It looks like
there are several dead ones, not just 1.x.x but 'ebcdic' for example.

- Julian

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