RE: [Xen-users] Question about source branches

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

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> Tom Mornini
> Sent: 06 March 2007 17:22
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> Subject: [Xen-users] Question about source branches
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> Could someone explain the source branches of the Mercurial repository?
> 
> i.e. what is intended for unstable (3.1, 4.0?) -vs- stable 
> -vs- testing?

Unstable is where the current development work is going on. This can be
both simple bug fixes and major changes - and sometimes quite disruptive
work that re-arranges large portions of code goes on here. It is not
tested with anything but some basic automated testing. Definitely not
what you want to 

Stable is a release that has been well tested and tried out, verified to
be "stable". There are new releases to "stable", but changes aren't very
frequent. 

Testing is a half-way house which is used for "new additions to stable"
until those are "verified stable". For example "backports" from
unstable, say someone finds and fixes a bad bug in unstable, that can
relatively easily be fixed in earlier versions, then that patch
(suitably modified) will be applied to testing. At some point, perhaps
3.0.4-2 will be a "stable" release, and thus the code from "testing" is
moved to "stable". 

> 
> I'd like to understand this in general, but I also have two specific  
> questions:
> 
>    1) Which branch is headed toward 3.05, for instance?

Xen-unstable at the moment. It will (most likely) end up in "stable" at
some point, but it will become 3.0.5 testing first. 


>    2) What is intended for unstable?

In the immediate future, 3.0.5, later on 3.0.6 or 3.1.0. 

At some point there will probably be a branch where 4.0 or similar,
where the current work (possibly quite disruptive to the infrastructure)
goes on in a unstable tree, and all 3.x work is done in testing. Or
there may even, at that point, be a 3.x unstable and 4.x unstable that
are maintained in parallel. This is of course speculation, as only
future will tell what is going to happen at that time. 

--
Mats
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> Thanks in advance!
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