Re: [hibernate-dev] Plans to release 5.2.13?

Yep, I know how long it takes to do a release - I've been doing them for almost 15 years ;) I'm not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing about blogging every bugfix release. But anyway, Sanne asked what would help automate the release process, so I am listing things that would help. Of course you can feel free to contribute blogging and emailing announcement plugins for Gradle for us to use in the automated release tasks ;)

If you release something every month, it's not that bad if a bugfix slips > to the next release. If a PR is not completely ready, well, it's going to > be in the next one, no need to wait. It helps getting the release > coordination easier. > 5.2 just got lost in the cracks as Andrea, Chris and I were all working on 6.0. It's also easier to detect and fix regressions when you release more > frequently. > That's a fallacy. Or at least its not true in isolation. It depends on the things that would highlight the regression picking up that release and playing with it, since your entire premise here is that the regression is not tested as part of the test suite. But that's actually not what happens today in terms of our inter-project integrations... really we find out many releases later when OGM or Search update to these newer ORM releases.

> away - if I think the issue requires backporting, sometimes, it's just not > worth it or too risky. And I'm doing the "what should I backport?" thing > only on product only branches. > This right here is the crux - "active community branch". By definition no branch is in active community development. Again, we have discussed this as a team multiple times. Once the next release is stable we stop developing the previous one, with a few caveats. E.g.: - Once 5.3 is stable we do generally expect to do a *few* additional 5.2 releases. But let's be careful about the expectation about the phrase "few" here. I really mean one or 2... - For major releases (5.x -> 6.x) we generally expect to do a larger number of releases of the 5.3 line. Again though, not indefinite. The basic gist is that we are an open source community. We simply do not have the resources to maintain infinite lines of development. We need to focus on what is important. I think we all agree that currently 5.2 is still important, but I think we may all have different expectations for what that means moving forward as 5.3 becomes the stable release. I cannot give a concrete "we will only do X more 5.2 releases after 5.3 is stable" answer. It might be 2. It might be 3. And it might be 1.

I'm not saying it would be that easy with ORM as the flow of issues is > significantly larger. Just stating how we do it. > Sure. And time-boxed releases are what we normally strive for as well in ORM. 5.2 is largely an aberration in this regard. Again - Andrea, Chris and I were focused on 6.0 work and since there is no 5.2 based Red Hat work this fell between the cracks