[Development] Focusing bug fixes to 5.9 branch and patch releases during H1/17

[Thiago Macieira]

On sábado, 18 de fevereiro de 2017 12:11:53 PST Mat Sutcliffe wrote:
> On 18 February 2017 at 19:13, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On sábado, 18 de fevereiro de 2017 06:36:07 PST Mat Sutcliffe wrote:
> > > Keeping 5.9.0 on schedule even while 5.8.0 blows past its planned
> > > release
> > > date would seem to be appropriate when you have the capability to
> > > concurrently maintain two minor (not patchlevel) release branches.
> > 
> > That's exactly what Tuukka proposed we do. We keep 5.9.0 on schedule and,
> > because of that, 5.8.1 becomes impossible and unnecessary.
> 
> My point was that this decision happened already on 29 November. That was
> the original planned release date for 5.8.0, and also the day on which the
> 5.9.0 initial schedule was set. Could it have been predicted at that time
> what the consequences might be for 5.8.1?

Hindsight is 20/20. Let's not rehash coulda-woulda-shoulda.

The question is only what to do now.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center