Re: [hibernate-dev] ORM progress: tricky branch state

I think I have pointed out before that such a schedule is already posted : https://github.com/sebersole/hibernate-core/blob/wip/6.0/design/6.0-todo.... The important part remaining is really collection support. There are a few listed there that we'd be willing to push to the next Alpha On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:42 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > On Hibernate ORM we're currently having "master" branch essentially > being a maintenance branch, aka master today is what's planned to be > version 5.3.2.Final in some days, 5.3.3 later, etc.. > > This is quite unusual, and it begs some extra attention: normally we'd > start a new minor in master, so that PRs of any kind could be welcome > in master, while specific, cherry-picked fixes are backported to the > last maintained minors. > > This is not the case now and until we move on to a new minor or major > we'll need to be particularly careful about what is allowed to be > merged. > I'm not pointing fingers to any specific commit, my concern is just > raised by the high volume of changes being merged. They all look great > individually but changes are not good at this point :) > > Not sure what to suggest to people wanting to contribute new features > today; maybe hold as we assume the 6.0 work will be merged in master > soon? Will be hard to say no to many reasonable requests though. > > Steve, do you think that the 6.0 merge could happen soon enough to not > need any process changes in how we deal with master? > > Thanks, > Sanne >