From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4062 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 0.9.14 released Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:10:03 +0200 Message-ID: <52419D3B.1030209@gentoo.org> References: <20130924061849.GA3027@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <524198C5.9070502@barfooze.de> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380031801 19003 80.91.229.3 (24 Sep 2013 14:10:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:10:01 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4066-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Sep 24 16:10:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VOTJT-0001pP-IJ for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 5749 invoked by uid 550); 24 Sep 2013 14:10:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 5741 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2013 14:10:02 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130411 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <524198C5.9070502@barfooze.de> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4062 Archived-At: On 24/09/13 15:51, John Spencer wrote: >> Sometime soon I also want to focus on what the development and release >> model post-1.0 will be, especially whether we'll aim to maintain a >> 'stable' branch with minimal new features alongside new development. > > having a stable branch which only gets backports of bugfixes makes sense > if we aim for inclusion in conservative distributions. > if nothing else, it signals that we care about stability. > otoh it's much more work to maintain... If you want a stable branch I found _really_ useful having tags such as CC: musl-stable@musl-libc.org But you need at least 2 people doing the actual backporting weekly. lu