[GeoNode-devel] ATTENTION: GeoNode GitHub Repos Summary and Status

Mon Apr 23 15:56:24 PDT 2018

Hi !

Thank you very much Alessio for the clarifications, it's very helpful.

Could expand a little on the branches description by explaining the policy
for each branch (including the 2.6.x branch) :

- what is accepted in the branch (breaking changes, new features, bugfixes
only, nothing...)
- ETA and/or conditions for release
- expected lifetime after which the branch won't have new releases

Compared to semantic versioning (major.minor.patch, corresponding to
breaking-changes/non-breaking-changes/bugfixes), I think currently use an
additional top level but without no patch level
(complete-rewrites.major.minor).

This is a bit hard to work with if you need stable branches. For example,
if you're using 2.8.0 and need the bugfixes, you'll have to wait for 2.8.1,
but it will also include new features (and hence new bugs, database
migrations, etc...).

I suggest adding a new version level for patch versions, so that we have
actually stable branches. This clearly represents a little bit additional
work, but I believe if policies are very clear, the community would be able
to do the work of backporting the bugfixes they need if they know there's
going to be a release soon. Also we can do that only for a few select
branches (that are LTS).

Note that I don't say we should do strict semantic versioning (maybe a bit
difficult), my main concern is separating new features and bug fixes.

And by the way, if 2.7.x is the release candidate for 2.8.1, can't we just
call it 2.8.x ? (kind of counter intuitive to have 2.7.x ahead of 2.8.0)

Thanks for the great work !!

Olivier

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:15 PM, Alessio Fabiani <
alessio.fabiani at geo-solutions.it> wrote:

> Dear all, please read carefully here below.
>
> You can find here the list and status of GeoNode GitHub current branched
> updated @ 23rd April 2018
>
> *2.8.0*
> ====
>
> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/tree/2.8.0
>
>
> - Based on Django 1.8.19 and Celery 4.1.0
> - Compatible with Ubuntu 16.0.4 and CentOS 7 (the only ones officially
> tested currently)
>
> *NOTES:* This branch is frozen and contains everything until latest
> stable GeoNode release 2.8.0. This branch won't be changed until the next
> release for the 2.8.0 train (2.8.1).
>
> At that point the source code of GeoNode 2.8.0 will be found only on 2.8
> tag
>
> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/releases/tag/2.8
>
> *2.7.x*
> ====
>
> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/tree/2.7.x
>
> - Based on Django 1.8.19 and Celery 4.1.0
> - Compatible with Ubuntu 16.0.4 and CentOS 7 (the only ones officially
> tested currently)
>
> *NOTES:* This branch is the GeoNode 2.8.1 release candidate. Currently
> marked as 2.7.7 version, before the official release process you will be
> able to find 2.7.7+ deb packages on unstable ppa.
>
> 2.7.x train will remain based on Django 1.8 forever
>
>
> *2.9.x/master*
> ==========
>
> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode
>
> - Based on Django 1.11.11 and Celery 4.1.0
>
> - Still under testing. This is meant to be working with latest
> Ubuntu/CentOS releases
>
> *NOTES:* This branch is the GeoNode 2.10.0 candidate.  Currently marked
> as 2.9.0 version, before the official release process you will be able to
> find 2.9.0+ deb packages on unstable ppa.
>
> 2.9.x train will remain based on Django 1.11 forever
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alessio Fabiani
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