Follow Up from "Let's Discuss Interim Releases"

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Sun Mar 10 01:48:07 UTC 2013


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On 03/09/2013 08:35 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> There's still the requirement to keep things in sync.  That's what
> I was referring to.  Also, for many common targets for SRUs/late
> bug fixes that are actively maintained, the packages in the
> development release would quickly diverge and so you'd still have
> to do two sets of patches.  Except for reduced QA requirements, it
> doesn't seem to offer much over release and SRU and I'm not sure
> reduced QA is actually a feature.

Yes, they would diverge, and you would have to upload two fixes, just
like what we do now with SRUs.  Where it differs from the current
release and SRU is that we have a longer period of feature freeze /
bug fix time before the final release, but without it holding up
ongoing development.


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