Re: [Libevent-users] Plan for backporting bugfixes to stable releases

2010-12-11 Thread Nicholas Marriott
Hi Obviously it is ultimately up to you how you want to support things but I'd just say that with a limited development team it is probably best to avoid hard and fast support commitments. I think a lot of small open source projects get bogged down in writing and following rules and policies when

Re: [Libevent-users] Plan for backporting bugfixes to stable releases

2010-12-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Kevin Bowling wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> >> Hi, all!  Here's a thing I wrote up to try to explain a proposed >> policy for what to backport to 2.0.x once it's stable, and what to >> backport to 1.4.x after 2.0.x is released

Re: [Libevent-users] Plan for backporting bugfixes to stable releases

2010-12-10 Thread Kevin Bowling
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Hi, all! Here's a thing I wrote up to try to explain a proposed > policy for what to backport to 2.0.x once it's stable, and what to > backport to 1.4.x after 2.0.x is released. Absent major problems with > it, the current Libevent core d

[Libevent-users] Plan for backporting bugfixes to stable releases

2010-12-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! Here's a thing I wrote up to try to explain a proposed policy for what to backport to 2.0.x once it's stable, and what to backport to 1.4.x after 2.0.x is released. Absent major problems with it, the current Libevent core developers are probably going to stick with this for official rele