Re: [che-dev] Eclipse Che 6.x

[Gennady Azarenkov <gazarenk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Sergii,

It's the plan.

Would like to emphasize and explain one important moment.

It's planned that within next 3 months (till the end of January 2018) we release version 6.0 and leave it as an upstream version putting 5.x to maintain mode (only bug fixes).

During this transition period:

1/ 5.x ONLY: There are (presumably small number of) bugfixes and tasks specific for version 5.x only. These changes are going with PR to master branch only.*

2/ 5 and 6: Tasks/features targeted to both 5 and 6 versions. There should be 2 PRs: to master and Che6 branch.*

3/ 6.0 only: Code compatible with/makes sense for 6 version only. PR to Che6 branch only.*

* Categorization of code may be some tricky. Please feel free to ask about the code you working on (or going to work): 

- che-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx list, 

- Che Mattermost channel (https://mattermost.eclipse.org/eclipse/channels/eclipse-che#) 

- concrete project maintainer(s) (https://github.com/eclipse/che/wiki/Development-Process Roles->Maintainers list) 

in advance (the sooner the better)

Thanks,

Gennady

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Sergii Kabashniuk <skabashn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello

Small updates about 6.x strategy

After collecting opinions I think I can propose such steps.

1. At least for some time, we will need to support two major versions. 5.x and 6.0-Mx

2. We are going to release both 5.x and 6.0-Mx until the time when 6.0-GA will be merged into master.

3. We are forcing protection on che6 branch so no one can push in this branch without review.

4. We have opened https://github.com/eclipse/che/pull/6698 pr from the che6 branch so everybody can review and comment existed changes.

5. Since in che 5 we are not expecting format changes in any API, but in Che6 it's still possible until we release GA, we are going to ask committers that if changes are made against che5 it has to be made in che6 too. The opposite is not required.

6. Today I'm going to merge master to che6 automatically last time. After that, I will set up

    6.0-M1-SNAPSHOT version in che6. After this action, all changes in che5 have to be manually

    cherry-picked to che6.

 Sergii Kabashniuk