[sheepdog-users] [sheepdog] [ANNOUNCE] stable sheepdog branch

[Hitoshi Mitake]

At Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:14:27 +0900,
MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:38:14 +0900,
> Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > 
> > At Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:20:26 +0800,
> > Liu Yuan wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 12:41:06PM +0900, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> > > > At Tue, 2 Jul 2013 11:14:21 +0800,
> > > > Liu Yuan wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:43:48AM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > > > > > At Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:31:59 +0800,
> > > > > > Kai Zhang wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Jul 2, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > I didn't know the feature, it seems to be useful. How can we activate
> > > > > > > > it? I googled it but could not found the way... :(
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Try this: https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/settings/hooks
> > > > > > > where you can find a email hook.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Github returned 404.. Is this only for fully privileged users? I might
> > > > > > have a limited privilege. Could you activate the email notification of
> > > > > > stable branch commits, Yuan or Kazutaka-san?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I got a 404 too.
> > > > 
> > > > I can activate it.  Maybe, it's because I'm the owner of the
> > > > repository.
> > > > 
> > > > BTW, it seems that if we enable the email hook, the push to the master
> > > > branch is also notified to the registered email.  Is it okay?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Not okay to me. Commit mail of master branch to the devel list looks annoy me.
> > > Maybe it is better for Hitoshi to manually write a summary what he cherry-pick
> > > or backport regularly, and then we can reply the mail if some impormant fixes
> > > are missing.
> > 
> > OK, I'll send an email manually.
> > 
> > BTW, I'd like to update the policy of stable branch maintainance as
> > follows:
> > 
> > - Each major release has its stable branch.
> >   e.g. stable branch of 0.6 is stable-0.6
> > 
> > - A maintainer of the stable branches sends patches which will be
> >   applied to the branches.
> > 
> > - If no one disagrees with applying the patches in a given time, they
> >   will be applied to the branches. The given time will be 7 days (one
> >   week would be fine for the period).
> > 
> > - The stable branches will be maintained until corresponding stable
> >   branches of QEMU become obsolete.
> > 
> > I'd like to hear opinions.
> 
> Looks good to me.  Can you document this on our wiki?

Thanks for your review. I'll create a new page on the wiki later.

Thanks,
Hitoshi