[dev] CVS repository changes

Jon Parise jon@horde.org
Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:29:13 -0500


On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:26:51PM -0600, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:

> > FreeBSD reserves that last number of emergency security releases. They
> > actually branch all of their releases for that reason.  It would be
> > easy for us to do the same.
> > 
> > Minor revisions (the second number) are sort of expected to have both
> > fixes and features, so the third number "point releases" are basically
> > only for important bug fixes to the minor release.
> 
> Got it.  So there might be a third number if needed for critical/security
> fixes (as we've seen with 2.2.x) but it doesn't appear until needed (i.e.  
> "Horde 2.0" not "Horde 2.0.0")?  Sounds good.
 
That's it exactly.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Information Technology (2001)
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member