[hibernate-dev] Only blockers should be fixed in Hibernate ORM 5.0 branch

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 18 Mar 2016 14:34, "Gunnar Morling" <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
>
> Stupid question probably: Why do we maintain 5.0.x at all, now that
> 5.1.0.Final is out? Is it that EAP or WF will continue to be using
> 5.0.x? If so, why is that, couldn't they move to 5.1?

EAP will be supported for many years so that requires us to support 5.0 for
very long,  and I guess that's why Gail would prefer to limit backports to
the essential (minimum risk of unwanted changes)

But even beyond product requirements, as an OSS project first I would be a
disappointed user to see support dropped so quickly from a recent major
release: I suspect abandoning 5.0 already would not be popular at all.

Personally I would see us support 4.3 too but I understand we'd need more
help for that to be feasible so that's life.. Hard to define what's the
right threshold for sure, so it's up to those who do the job to decide..
But dropping 5.0 seems way premature to me to the point that I'd rather
slow down other R&D.

>
> 2016-03-17 22:17 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:
> > On 17 March 2016 at 17:40, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> >> To be honest, I think its best if we somehow notify you for issues
fixed
> >> that we think should be considered for inclusion on 5.0 branch and you
can
> >> decide.  A label or a filter.  Something like that
> >
> >
> > +1 Shouldn't any bug be considered? Even if it's not a blocker but
> > it's annoying ..
> >
> > Personally I'd use a JIRA filter based on the "affects" field and
> > type=bug; if any you might want a label to exclude them from this list
> > so you don't have to review an ever-growing list.
> >
> > -- Sanne
> >
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:30 PM Gail Badner <gbadner at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Please do not backport any fixes that are not blockers. If you are
not sure
> >>> if an issue is a blocker, then please ask before pushing to 5.0.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Gail
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