Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 02:51:54 +0100 (CET) From: henrichhartzer@tuta.io To: Freebsd Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Latest and quarterly best practices Message-ID: <NnH9ree--3-9@tuta.io>
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Hi, I'm not a committer so this shouldn't carry much weight. Just wanted to exp= ress my opinion. I think the latest and quarterly setup is a nice and clever one. Unfortunat= ely, it seems fairly often that ports that should probably be cherrypicked = into quarterly are not. Occasionally, some updates make it into quarterly t= hat don't make clear sense to me, but this is much more rare. I propose that as a rule of thumb, if a package uses Semantic Versioning (s= emver) and the changes are non-breaking, it should be cherry picked into qu= arterly. Especially if this is only a patch level change and not a minor, b= ut likely either way. A couple of recent examples that I've seen, which I would like to point out= . Please note that I am *not* picking on anyone and this is just what I'm m= ore familiar with. net-p2p/monero-cli was updated from 0.18.2.2_2 to=C2=A00.18.3.1 on the 19th= of October. Any software that is blockchain related tends to need to be as= current as possible for security reasons. Quarterly still has=C2=A00.18.2.= 2_2 (although 2023Q1 will be cut soon, I assume) which is quite out of date= now. An opposite case, and this one may be truly a no harm no foul case: x11-wm/= hyprland was updated from 0.33.1_2 to=C2=A00.34.0, and cherrypicked to quar= terly. There were a number of changes in this release, and I personally wou= ld be hesitant to recommend such a cherrypicking unless there were known is= sues with 0.33.1 that users had complained about. Otherwise, since it's an = offline window manager, it seems like waiting for the quarterly release wou= ld make the most sense. Now in this case I don't know the context and cherr= ypicking may have made complete sense -- I'm just using it as an example to= try and explain my thoughts. Please don't feel at all like I'm being nitpicky. I'm just hoping to contri= bute how I can and it seems like the processes around cherrypicking could b= e improved. I love FreeBSD and appreciate the tremendous amount of work tha= t has gone into it. It really is great because of the contributions of many= . I'm just hoping to make it even greater! Thank you for reading, and Happy New Year! Sincerely, Henrich
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