Re: [Nano-devel] nano-2.4.3pre1 ready for testing

[Eitan Adler]

Having a known-stable version is quite valuable, especially in the
enterprise world.  That said, distributions have largely taken up the
slack.  For example FreeBSD has a quarterly branch that doesn't
receive upgrades except for security relevant changes.

In other words: do what makes your life easier in this case :-)

On 17 November 2015 at 09:34, Chris Allegretta <address@hidden> wrote:
> [now with -devel copied]
> Interesting suggestion.
>
> Does anyone find value in having a dedicated 2.4 / stable series?
> Distribution maintainers especially, what say ye?
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Benno Schulenberg
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015, at 08:21, Chris Allegretta wrote:
>>> So I was getting things in order for the release, but was not in the
>>> right state of mind for where I thoughts backports were. I did a very
>>> rushed job of putting things into 2.4, [...]
>>
>> Why do backports at all?  Why not simply release HEAD?  It will be
>> stabler than whatever you can hastily put together.  And will have
>> more features.
>>
>> Having an even and an uneven series, a stable one and a development
>> one, is old-fashioned.  The idea today is: quick releases.  Firefox
>> churns out a release every six weeks, the kernel every two months.
>> I don't know the cadence of Chrome, but it must be something similar.
>>
>> If it had been up to me, we would have had a release almost every
>> month over the past year.  Meaning that most of the fixes would have
>> been in Wily by now.  What did I make all these efforts for?
>>
>> Benno
>>
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