From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bifrost.lang.hm (mail.lang.hm [64.81.33.126]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0157121F19D for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from asgard.lang.hm (asgard.lang.hm [10.0.0.100]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id s0F0UgjJ031007; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:30:42 -0800 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:30:42 -0800 (PST) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Dave Taht In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net" Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] notes on going for a stable release X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:32:44 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:32:44 -0000 On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Dave Taht wrote: > I am in strong agreement that cerowrt is close to being ready for a > stable release. > > ** What is a stable release? > > To me a "stable release" is something that has been extensively > tested, benchmarked, and will have a series of updates and security > fixes for 1-2 years. It has a maintainer, a bug database, a means for > dealing with major security issues, and so on. I don't think we need this, but we do need a newer release that doesn't say "don't use this on anything you care about" Even if there is no backporting of patches, a release that we can say "This seems to work well, here are known bugs" and "we plan to make a release like this at least once every X months" This isn't freezing a release and only applying bugfixes to it, it's a rolling, development process where we can point people at something fairly recent to use and they can use it with the expectation that by the time it becomes badly obsolete we will have something newer available for them. David Lang