[CRIU] [RFC] Future CRIU releases

Saied Kazemi saied at google.com
Fri Dec 18 09:43:17 PST 2015


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at parallels.com>
wrote:

> On 12/17/2015 09:18 PM, Saied Kazemi wrote:
> > I also agree that having fixed dates for stable releases is good and we
> > should continue doing it.
>
> OK :)
>
> > Regarding faster access to newly implemented features, how about a
> separate
> > "channel" called beta or dev that releases weekly (or at will)?  New
> features
> > are introduced in this channel and, after they've been qualified for a
> few
> > weeks, move to the stable channel.  This is like what OS distros such as
> > CoreOS do (they actually have three channels: alpha, beta, stable; visit
> > https://coreos.com/releases/).
>
> Hm... Do you know whether they do those releases from one repo, or
> constantly
> move only the good stuff from alfa to beta and then to stable?
>

I'm pretty sure all releases come from the same repo, but different
branches.  New features are committed to master and then cherry picked onto
alpha, beta, and stable.

Does a two-branch scheme (dev and stable) work for CRIU?

--Saied
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