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

[Thiago Macieira]

On sábado, 18 de fevereiro de 2017 11:49:28 PST Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 18.02.2017, 22:13, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> > 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.
> 
> So people who cannot upgrade to 5.8.0 because of bugs would have to wait for
> 5.9.0 and hope that there will be no other regressions. Great.

Or wait for 5.9.1.

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center