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Re: Glibc stable release process (Glibc 2.26.1)
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at sourceware dot org>
- To: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge at gentoo dot org>, "Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel at inconstante dot eti dot br>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, "Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at free dot fr>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Romain Naour <romain dot naour at gmail dot com>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux dot intel dot com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 12:04:50 +0530
- Subject: Re: Glibc stable release process (Glibc 2.26.1)
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- Reply-to: siddhesh at sourceware dot org
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On Tuesday 03 October 2017 08:27 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Given that your previous recommendation was "stay with the tip of
> the release branch", that sounds unnecessary. My recommendation
> from my experience as packager of other software would be, * keep
> adding backports to the release branches as careful as now * tag
> (and tar?) point releases from the release branches at regular
> intervals, say every two months. This might make releases more
> comparable between distributions.
I think the difference there is on who has the responsibility of
testing the release tarball. When we bless a release as upstream, we
should at least be doing some minimal testing before throwing it over
the wall. If a distribution builds a tarball off the branch and uses
it, it becomes their responsibility to test :)
Siddhesh
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