[cfe-dev] RFC: Release process changes

[David Chisnall via cfe-dev]

Thanks Tom,

This sounds great.  Two minor comments:

On 21/05/2020 19:59, Tom Stellard via cfe-dev wrote:

> ** Create a time-based bug-fix release schedule.  After each major release, make
>     a new bug-fix release every 2 weeks for 12 weeks (6 releases total).

Presumably that's a maximum time delay?  If there are no bugs with 
simple back-portable fixes found in a two-week window, I hope the 
release manager isn't required to do an N.M+1 that is identical to N.M 
except for the version number?


> * Before RC2: Patches should be limited to bug fixes or backend specific
>    improvements that are determined to be very safe.

It would be good to make this 'back-end or platform' rather than just 
'back-end'.  If there is a small tweak that is going to be added as a 
patch by the downstream package maintainer for a given platform, it's 
probably a good idea to have it in the upstream repository.

David