[OpenSER-Users] Survey for new mailing list

Henning Westerholt henning.westerholt at 1und1.de
Fri Feb 8 11:48:05 CET 2008


On Friday 08 February 2008, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> [..]
> Many project have lists where you can subscribe in order to get
> notification for critical bug or security fixes. Currently, for openser,
> if you are not subscribed on devel list and if you are not "good" enough
> in "decrypting" the commit logs, you may miss important fixes you may
> want to update.
>
> I think is our duty as project to inform the users about the discovered
> flows in the stable versions. My suggestion is to create a new mailing
> list where, who is interested, will receive notifications when something
> critical was fixed in the stable versions of openser.
> [..]

Hi Bogdan,

good points. Such a list would be surely a good thing. But i don't think this 
is exactly what we need. If somebody choose to run a openser version from the 
stable branch, he must monitor the devel list for importantant changes in 
this branch. This could be easily achieved with some filtering. If there are 
understanding problems with svn commit messages, we should improve them. 
Remaining questions could be easily be resolved on the devel list.

But distributions and many users don't use the stable branch as base for their 
usage, the rely on stable releases. 

So if a really critical fix is merged into the stable branch, e.g. a security 
fix, then we should immediately release a new minor release that includes 
this fix. Otherwise the user which don't have the knowledge or the time to 
run from the stable branch will be left in the cold.

So, my suggestions are:

- implement a regular release schedule for minor releases, e.g. every 2 months
- release immediately for _really_ critical fixes
- add a new list, called "announce" for announcements for new releases

This policy is implemented from many successful other projects. This way 
people running stable or from the branch know that there was a cricital fix, 
and that they should update. 

Cheers,

Henning




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