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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Niklas Edmundsson <ni...@acc.umu.se> on 2010/03/01 13:20:52 UTC

Re: Tagging 2.2.15 to play openssl catchup?

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:

> by Monday morning, guess we will have to slide this once again.  I wouldn't
> defer for feature additions, nor will I vote for them.  Carefully reviewed
> bug fixes?  The more the merrier :)
>
> I'm not voting against them, they are probably very nice to have, but
> destabilizing a security release in the interest of new features is not
> very friendly to our user community.  And they certainly detract from what
> we are trying to actually accomplish, which is to share all the improvements
> with the world via httpd 2.4.0, via 2.3-dev alphas.  The answer isn't to keep
> backporting everything including the kitchen sink, but release 2.3 more
> early and often.  If nobody else jumps on this, I'm happy to make that
> happen in the next couple weeks.

+1 (both to keeping security-fix-releases stable and boring, and to 
release 2.3 early and often :)

/Nikke
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