[Zope-dev] Re: Twice-annual releases and bugfixes?

[Tres Seaver]

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Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> What does the twice-annual release policy say about bugs and/or packaging
> errors that are identified and fixed within a very short time of the
> official release announcement?
> 
>     Log message for revision 41228:
>       Merge r41227 from 2.9 branch:
>         Update Five to bugfix release 1.3.1.
>     Changed:
>       U   Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/Five/CHANGES.txt U  
>       Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/Five/site/localsite.py U  
>       Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/Five/site/tests/sitemanager.txt U  
>       Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/Five/tests/adapters.py U  
>       Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/Five/version.txt
>     (...)
>     +* Fix an adapter look-up bug in the local site implementation
>     +that was due to an oversight during the port to Zope 3.2.
> 
> I'm building from svn, so it doesn't make much difference to me, but I was
> curious whether the circumstances (if any) that would trigger bugfix
> releases were documented anywhere.

I think the trigger is one of the following:

  - The release manager sees the prbolem, says "Oh, $#1^!", puts on the
    obligatory brown bag, and pushes one out ASAP (this one is typical
    for glaring security holes).

  - Some large-scale user (or upstream framework) is trying to make a
    release, and needs an unreleased fix.  They lobby for a "third dot"
    release that their own deployment can then rely on.

I haven't seen enough other cases to classify them.


Tres.
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