2.0.4 and 2.1.0rc1 have gone gold

[Martin Pool]

2010/1/22 Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net>:
> John Arbash Meinel пишет:
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>> Once again it is my pleasure to announce that 2.0.4 and 2.1.0rc1 have
>> gone gold.
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>> This marks a transition for the 2.1 series to become 'stable'...
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> Does it means that 2.0.x won't be supported (re bug fixing) anymore?

No, it means that both of them are now stable.  We may do a 2.0.5 in
the future when it has accumulated enough fixes to be worth releasing.

Only changes that fix a specific bug, that do not break apis or
formats, and that are reasonably safe can go into either 2.0 or 2.1.
If it's safe to make the fix in 2.0, the fix should be done and
reviewed there first, then merged to 2.0, 2.1 and trunk.  There is not
a higher or lower stability bar for 2.0 than 2.1 or vice versa.

Bug fixes would go into 2.1 only if: the bug isn't present in 2.0, the
infrastructure to fix it cleanly or easily is not in 2.0, etc.  For
unimportant bugs if it's harder to fix in 2.0 it may not be worth
doing.

The 'release cycle'  doc explains some of this but it may need clarification.

> Martin wrote that 2.1 will be LTS (1 year support or more). How do you plan
> to keep PPA for several releases?

Good question.  I suppose we could have another PPA for each series.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>