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Re: [cups-devel] Status of the 1.7 branch ?



Didier,

OK, the 1.7 branch mirroring should be fixed now and shows the work towards 1.7.2.


On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com> wrote:

> Didier,
> 
> I'll investigate why the 1.7 git branch isn't tracking the svn branch. Per the roadmap page, you should expect 1.7.x releases every 6-8 weeks until 2.0 is final.
> 
> As for 2.0, I hope to start beta releases in a few months, with a release before October. That sounds like 2.0 will meet your deadline for Debian...
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Feb 23, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Mike,
>> 
>> I'm a bit unclear with regards to the status of the 1.7 branch of cups, 
>> specifically: 
>> 
>> * Are further 1.7.x releases planned? Until when?
>> 
>> As you might know, Debian releases "when it's ready", but history as 
>> shown that stable releases have to be security-maintained for roughly 3 
>> years (~2 years between stable releases, 1 year overlap). The current 
>> plan is to freeze on 5. November 2014, with a release some months after 
>> that; therefore supported approximately until 2018. We are interested to 
>> know which CUPS branch should be shipped with our next stable release: 
>> 1.7.x or 2.x? What do you envision?
>> 
>> * What is the status of the branch-1.7 on the git [0] ?
>> 
>> It's current revision corresponds to svn's r11429 and predates the 1.7.1 
>> release. Are fixes committed to this branch but not pushed? It'd be 
>> quite useful to have a public updated 1.7.x branch, to see what fixes 
>> are included. Similarly, a timeline for future 1.7.x releases would be 
>> very useful: I'm currently cherry-picking fixes from the 2.0 branch 
>> because I don't know whether a 1.7.2 is bound to happen (and when).
>> 
>> I don't want to sound to too critical: having this repository is very 
>> useful!
>> 
>> With my best regards, cheers,
>> 
>> OdyX
>> 
>> [0] https://cups.org/software.php#GIT
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