[Open-scap] OpenSCAP 1.2.0 coming soon

[Martin Preisler]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Lukasik" <slukasik at redhat.com>
> To: open-scap-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:33:23 AM
> Subject: [Open-scap] OpenSCAP 1.2.0 coming soon
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> I am thinking about releasing OpenSCAP 1.2.0 soon from master branch.
> Let me know if you have any patches coming!

Tons of them are coming but not right away. I don't know where the
decision was made to release from master now but I am strongly against
it.

There are still regressions from oscap_source that haven't been fixed.
I need changes in openscap master to support new workbench functionality
that has not been written yet. Furthermore I have RFEs for report and
guide that I would like to implement. Semantic diff is also planned
for 1.2.0.

And then there is:
https://fedorahosted.org/openscap/query?milestone=1.2.0&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status

It adds another maintenance branch which has significant cost. I would
prefer to release with more new features than what we have right now.
Do we really want to release a new breaking release every 2 months?

If there are any benefits from releasing *right now* I don't see them.
All of the issues I raised should be ironed out in a few months.
In my opinion it makes sense to release new feature version sometime
next year at the earliest.

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Martin Preisler