Re: [hibernate-dev] Releasing Hibernate ORM 5.2.18.Final?

On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 15:18, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 4:05 PM Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: >> >> It's never realistic to say "it's THE last ..." so I guess I agree we >> can show a bit of flexibility - but people should not get used to it, >> we can not re-establish a plan of regular releases from 5.2. > > > Sure, that's not what I suggest. Just that we shouldn't put too much pressure on "it's THE LAST release, we need to get everything in order" or we won't release anything at all. +1 > So it's more about saying: if we find a big issue or if we introduce a big regression, we can fix this one and release again. > > FWIW, 5.2.18 was planned for June 18th and already contains *62* resolved issues. > > But yes, the idea is no more 5.2 release after this one if we can avoid it. E.g. no active backport of 5.3 bugfixes. > >> >> We have to severely limit the time we can dedicate to it. Also please >> make sure people are motivated to update to 5.3, they better have >> extremely good reasons to not upgrade, and I would like to know more >> about those reasons. Could you take some notes when you hear such war >> stories? > > > So, the last one I heard is a user needing to support JPA 2.1 containers. I think it's a good one. I'm not convinced it's a good one :) but not going to argue, thanks for sharing it. >> >> Of course we can be more flexible with needs of contributors. If >> someone needs a backport and is volunteering to do 90% of the work >> then we can help, but we can't spend significant more time than >> approve changes and trigger the release jobs. No blogs. > > > I think we need to push an announcement but it can be really simple with just a link to the fixed issues. There's really not much more to say about it anyway. Announce it, but no ad-hoc blogs please. We can mention the release in the next weekly update or something like that. > > -- > Guillaume _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev