Inquiry: NGINX branch to track in "Interim" Non-LTS Releases

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 7:14 PM Thomas Ward <teward at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Currently, all LTS versions of Ubuntu that are currently supported have a
> version of the NGINX Stable branch in the repositories.  This was done
> initially so that we can provide a 'stable' and 'released without new
> features' type of branch we would be able to track.  In the cycle before
> release, we kept it in line with NGINX Mainline because once NGINX Stable
> was cut from that Mainline branch, they'd have newer features that would
> otherwise have been unavailable if we had tracked Stable.
>
> My assumption is we want to still do this type of behavior (that is, track
> Mainline branch) in interim releases.  This lets the interim releases of
> Ubuntu work with newer features that NGINX introduces, allowing us to file
> bugs upstream as necessary with the Mainline builds or to debug issues as
> they arise in the packaging.  However, because I am not sure if this is
> what we wish to do, I thought I'd reach out to the rest of the Server Team
> for your input.
>
> What do you think would be best, tracking NGINX Stable, or tracking NGINX
> Mainline, for the interim non-LTS releases?  I'm leaning towards tracking
> Mainline in the interim releases, if there's no objection - it'll let users
> who want more cutting edge NGINX features to use those in the interim
> releases without having to force them to use the PPAs.
>
Hi Thomas,
yeah I'd prefer to track Mainline in non-LTS releases as well.

To the sole exception of being very careful toward the next LTS to not
being forced to decide to "go back" or "stay on mainline" for the next
Ubuntu LTS.
For example if NGINX 1.17 mainline would be in Ubuntu 19.10 (as we track
mainline in non-LTS releases), but then there would not be a NGINX 1.18
stable available in time for Ubuntu 20.04 to pick up.
I don't know about the NGINX release schedule too much (is it regular and
reliable?), maybe this is not an issue at all, but I have seen similar
issues for other packages so I wanted to mention it.


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Christian Ehrhardt
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