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On 25 February 2015 at 13:13, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> On 2015-02-24 11:27:05 +0000 (+0000), Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> [...]
>> It would be reasonable for the vulnerability team to take the decision
>> that they'll support fixes for master, and any branches that the stable
>> team decide to support.
> [...]
>
> Well, it's worth noting that the VMT doesn't even "support" (i.e.
> issue advisories for bugs in) master branches now, the exception
> being branchless projects where the bug appears in master prior to
> an existing release tag.
>
> But I think Thierry's earlier point is that as soon as you start
> marking _some_ releases as special (supported by VMT, stable maint,
> docs, translators...) then those become your new actual releases and
> the other interim releases become your milestones, and we're back to
> the current model again.

I don't think thats true actually. We'd still have a major smoothing
effect on work, which means less high peaks at release time and less
troughs at 'review direction' time and so on.

-Rob


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