Should we tag master?

[Brad Bishop]

> On Oct 13, 2018, at 5:13 PM, Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 2:09 PM Gunnar Mills <gmills at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I think we should tag in the next week or two with a v2.4. I know it is
>> pretty arbitrary when we tag, but I have heard several companies use it.
>> The last time we tagged was July 12th and there have been over 600
>> commits since then. The last few tags have been every ~3 months, so we
>> are due by that schedule. The Release Planning Group is planning a 2.6
>> release in January but until then I vote we continue to tag every 3
>> months. There was some discussion on the mailing in August about this:
>> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2018-August/012922.html
> 
> My only thought is, it might benefit to wait until the great renaming
> is done or closer to done so that when downstream distros (like ours)
> rebase, they will be rebasing onto a more stable version.  I expect
> Brad and I will be done in a couple weeks, so I'm not anticipating
> needing a long delay on this.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Gunnar
>> 

This was discussed on the community call today.  I’ll start limiting
meta-phosphor content to fixes only on 11/11 and then I’ll do a v2.4 tag
on 11/16.

thx - brad