On to, 14 marras 2019, Stanislav Levin wrote:
Alexander, thank you for writing this.
13.11.2019 14:35, Alexander Bokovoy via FreeIPA-devel пишет:
FreeIPA presence in various distributions can be tracked with Repology project: https://repology.org/project/freeipa/versions
Unfortunately, ALT Linux is presented there only by one branch (don't know why). Just for your information, we have the following FreeIPAs:
- 4.3. I understand, that this is on my own support. There is a plan to
migrate to 4.6+, but this is just a plan for now.
- 4.7. I don't have any reason to stay on this, but only time to rebase
(plan: by the end of this year).
So, my targets are 4.6 and 4.8.
Thanks. Then I think we can do one final scheduled FreeIPA 4.7 release and close the branch for normal backports.
I would like to ask you about release dates. For example, FreeIPA has one minor release per year, this happens at the end of some month. Also there could be patch-releases - the end of each quarter. I understand that releases could be tied to the releases of major distros, but is some date schedule applicable?
I wish I could give any date-based promise but I simply cannot. From my experience, committing to date-based releases is very stressful. It is not about making the release itself but rather ensuring we have releasable content all the time. We try to achieve that with CI but CI cannot account for in-progress features that being merged piece-by-piece.
We continue to be driven by completion of major features for time being. Before doing actual date-based releases, we need to automate release process, it is all manual right now.
I think for 2020 we need to look into definition of actual themes to base releases on and may be have some rough deadlines defined by which those themes need to be completed to get into a next release. Once that is announced, we try to stick to the release deadlines (give or take couple weeks, hopefully).