Re: Another 1.6 release?

[Stefan Sperling <st...@elego.de>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 05:12:41PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote:
> 
> > The 1.6.17 release introduced a regression in write-through proxying
> > that can break commits to paths which need to be URI-encoded (see
> > r1088602 nomination in 1.6.x STATUS).
> > 
> > This is a conundrum for 1.6.x users who serve write-through proxy
> > locations as well as master locations from the same server. Either
> > they risk repository corruption bugs fixed in 1.6.18, or they risk
> > breaking write-through proxy commits.
> > 
> > 1.6.17 was released in March. I'd like to ask how people feel about
> > issuing another 1.6.x release to ship the currently pending fixes.
> > We have a handful nominations for 1.6.x, including a client crash
> > which can be triggered by malicious servers and a fix for a server hang.
> > 
> > I'd volunteer to run the release, and give a week for voting.
> > Any objections?
> 
> +1.  When we fix non-trivial bugs, it's really important to the user community that we actually ship those fixes.
> 
> - Julian

Thanks Julian.

I've received no other feedback so I'll formally ask the community
to vote this week.