[OpenLayers-Dev] updating release versions (was: OL 2.4 conflict with MS Ajax.Net)

[John Cole]

Christopher,
  This may be something that deserves more discussion, especially as OL
continues to grow.  It's not going to effect me much now, as I'm already
running a separate copy of OL (pre 2.4 because we went live before 2.4 went
gold), but in the future, as existing apps continue to run on older versions
of OL, it will effect me greatly.

  Bug fixes might not require a new RC cycle, depending on the scope of the
changes, and one could argue that any fix that would require a new RC
shouldn't be applied.  However, small bugs or security issues will crop up
and it would be nice to have the release branch actually contain the fixes,
instead of having everyone maintain their own, partially fixed versions.

  As I said, it isn't a large issue now, but it would be nice to have a
version receive updates for some planned period of time, especially when
it’s the current version. :-)  As more apps go online with OL, this will be
an issue in the future.

Thanks,

John

  

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:54 AM
To: John Cole
Cc: Fr??d??ric Junod; dev at openlayers
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] OL 2.4 conflict with MS Ajax.Net

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 07:56:02AM -0500, John Cole wrote:
> Christopher,
>   What is the policy on applying bug fixes to released versions?  I've
added
> a patch to 961 for 2.4 HEAD, and I was wondering if it can get applied to
> 2.4.

We've never touched a release once we tagged a final, and given that
we'll have an RC out for 2.5 in the next two weeks, I'm hesitant to
change that now. Doing an RC cycle against a 2.4.1 at the same time
we're doing an RC cycle against 2.5 sounds... suboptimal.

It's certainly something that could be brought up, but the current
tendancy is not to do much with the branches once we release, to lower
our releng cost. 

The best path for you is to roll your own by patching 2.4, and help
test/review to get 2.5 out the door :)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta

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