Release management thoughts for Dapper Drake

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 18 01:13:40 CDT 2005


On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:05:33AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> John Nilsson [2005-10-15 10:04 +0200]:
> > One solution is to begin working 6.10 and 6.4 booth at the same time.
> > This way 6.4 can be the Enterprise edition and 6.4 + 6.10-backports will
> > be what current users will use.
> 
> We don't have the manpower to develop two distributions at the same
> time. *If* we go Jeffs way and only apply bug fixes to Breezy to get
> Dapper, then we should put all of our efforts into it.

Additionally, developing two branches in parallel means that the testing
available from the community is divided between the branches.

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 - mdz



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