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Hi all,<br>
<br>
Once Wok 2.3 and Kimchi 2.3 were announced, I'd like to share with
you the new development flow to be adopted up to now.<br>
<br>
1. The next branch will not exist anymore from now on. <br>
2. The master branch will always handle new feature development.<br>
3. Now, stable branches are added to the plan. One for each major
release.<br>
<br>
How will it work?<br>
<br>
The stable-2.3.x branch was already created and points to 2.3.0
release.<br>
In this branch, only bug fixes will be merged! By the end of
December, the 2.3.1 release will be announced.<br>
<br>
The master branch will handle the new features development - to be
the base for the next major release.<br>
Once the major release enters on code freeze, the stable branch for
this release will be created and then, only bug fixes will be
accepted there.<br>
The master branch continues to handle new features development.<br>
<br>
Specially in this first cycle, we will not have a major release by
end of December.<br>
Instead of that, we will have a 2.4-Beta. Just because we don't have
much time (due the holidays in the end of year) and effort to
release two versions together.<br>
<br>
You can get more details for the next 2 releases in the graphic
below.<br>
<br>
Another change for next year will be the number of releases per
year.<br>
Today, we have 4 releases per year (March, June, Sept, Dec) and it
will be changed to 3 - one release for every 4 months (April, Aug,
Dec).<br>
That way, we will have 2 months for development and 2 months on code
freeze. Maybe that way we can deliver more stable releases.<br>
<img src="cid:part1.53F5591D.05B66768@linux.vnet.ibm.com" alt=""><br>
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Please, let me know your thoughts on all that.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Aline Manera<br>
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