[Rdo-list] Consequences for RDO of the proposal "no longer doing stable point releases"

[Jan van Eldik]

Hi Alan, all,

>> I think it would be good if RPMs would continue to be produced on
>> a regular basis, to allow consumers to benefit from the upstream
>> bug fixes. But I guess we would need to find a balance between
>> consumer needs and the available packaging effort.
>
> Yes, in upstream discussion I was at first going to propose to keep
> strictly time-based point release tags but then I liked upstream
> "stands behind" each commit idea.

Yes, I also like that idea.

 > So every stable commit would be
> micro-versioned (TBD how and where to provide tarballs) so that RDO
> and other distros could take any of them, based on their own schedules
> and still have common reference point(s).
>
> I'd propose to do RDO rebases on monthly basis with an option to do
> on-demand rebases for CVE or critical issues.

I'd support that strongly, as this would mean even more bug fix releases 
than today. It would be incentive to work more closely
with upstream on getting patches committed and tagged "stable",
which I believe is good for all.

> Package updates are always up to the package maintainers so this would
> be a recommendation.
> If needed, in case of unresponsive maintainers for example,
> super-packagers would do the rebases but that should an exception,
> package maintainership must be distributed otherwise we failed!

Agreed.

Do you know when the creation of point releases would stop? Assuming the
proposal is accepted, would this start with Liberty, or would it also
affect Kilo and Juno?


             thanks, cheers, Jan