[hibernate-dev] ORM - HHH-12332 - Releasing a 5.2.15 quickly?

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 7 March 2018 at 13:02, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>> Let's not rush things and see what Christian thinks: he should be
>> allowed to analyze this - if he has time and wants to - w/o too much
>> pressure. I see the last report is an NPE, that's typically not too
>> hard to fix so I'd rather try again.
>
>
> Well, not having too much pressure is exactly the reason why I'd like us to
> revert. We would then have time to iterate with the people having reported
> the issue without having a last release out there that does not work as
> expected.
>
> We apparently have at least one person willing to test the WIP PR so that's
> a good thing for that.
>
>>
>> The risk with a full revert is that it's never getting fixed: we're
>> missing some unit tests for "unknown" corner cases, so I propose we
>> put ourselves at least in the position to be able to collect enough
>> feedback to be able to (eventually) reproduce them and then proceed
>> with confidence.
>
>
> Reverting and releasing does not mean not pursuing the issues and making
> progress on this. That only means we can do it without pressure.

Ok, if that's the intent fair enough. Still if Christian has a better
solution soon there might be no need for it so I'd leave it to him.

>
> --
> Guillaume