Re: Stable release policy

[Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:35:43PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 21:10 +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> > I'd expect core projects to at least make all the releases listed in
> > the
> > schedule, but if useful bug fixes have queued up since May 14, it
> > would
> > make sense to make a release, right?
>
> Hey Ross,
>
> Of course. You can unscheduled releases whenever you think one's needed,
> for exactly that reason: we don't want users to go four months without
> bugfixes! Just be reasonable about the frequency of releases; if you
> find yourself at 3.x.7 and you're not GTK+ or Evolution then you're
> probably releasing too frequently. It's normal for GNOME programs to go
> up to 3.x.3, 3.x.4, and sometimes even 3.x.5.

That makes sense, thanks for the answer.

Cheers,
-- 
Ross Lagerwall