Re: Changes: GNOME 3.35/3.36 release schedule

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Wed, 2019-09-11 at 14:09 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> * Stable maintenance releases over a longer period

        Hi,
does it make sense to have 3.34.5 at the time of 3.36.1? I guess not
for majority of the projects. Even if it would be a soft requirement,
it happens that the stable branch doesn't get that much attention after
the first half, like after 3.x.2. I do not tell it, because previous
schedules ended with 3.x.2, I released up to 3.x.5, which was usually
aligned with 3.x+1.90 release. I do not think forcing even soft
requirement for more stable releases make any sense, if the maintainers
would like to give users more fixes in the current stable version, they
are already doing it. There are projects which do that, even for older
stable releases, but it's a real minority.

As a real life example, I skipped 3.32.5 this year, because there was
no code change in the stable branch with which the users could benefit.
The late stables are for bug fixes, from my point of view.

Just my opinion and experience from the past years.
        Bye,
        Milan