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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 March 2013 07:31, Johan Hake <hake.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/06/2013 08:08 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> On 6 March 2013 06:56, Johan Hake <hake.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I suggest we make 1.0.2, and 1.1.1 releases too, but I guess that was
>>> already on your mind?
>>>
>>
>> I think we should rationalise this. We want (a) to minimise the amount
>> of work and (b) encourage users to update . I wouldn't bother with
>> 1.1.1.
>
> Do you mean 1.1.1 or 1.0.2 or both? Then why do we bother backporting
> bug fixes to these branches? I think as long as we do that we need to
> release them too.
>

I don't bother with back porting ;).

I would suggest we release more frequently and forget about back
porting.  Do we really want to advocate users using one of three
supported versions?  One is best, two is bearable.

Garth

> This is not sustainable as it can quickly grow out of hands, so we need
> to stop backporting at some stage. I suggest we stop backporting to a
> branch when there exists a stable branch with a higher number. This mean
> we stop backporting to 1.1.x after the 1.2.0 release. If this should
> work we also need to make a point release from that branch before it
> rendered backporting dead. If we do this we need to update our
> development model with a another branch (1.2.x) and a chainsawed (1.1.x)
> branch.
>
> I guess 1.0.x branch is a bit special as it is so tightly connected with
> the book, and we therefore need to keep that for a while. That is our
> LTS branch in Ubuntu terms.
>
> Johan
>
>> Garth
>>
>>> Johan
>>>
>>> On 03/05/2013 05:10 PM, Johannes Ring wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> It was suggested earlier today that we make a new release. No one has
>>>> objected and I have been appointed as the release manager, so we are
>>>> then at step four in the development model [1].
>>>>
>>>> Tomorrow, March 6, I will fork the development branches into 1.2.x
>>>> branches [2] to prepare for the release of FEniCS 1.2. The buildbot
>>>> will then be updated to build the 1.2.x branches, and when it is
>>>> green, we can go ahead and make the release. Alternatively, we can
>>>> wait one week as suggested by the development model. Development can
>>>> of course continue in the development branches, but only bug fixes
>>>> will be merged into the 1.2.x branches to be included in the 1.2
>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://fenicsproject.org/contributing/development_model.html
>>>> [2] DOLFIN, FFC, Instant, UFC (2.2.x) and UFL are needed
>>>>
>>>> Johannes
>>>>
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