2.23.2 stable release <https://github.com/pantsbui...
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broad-processor-92400
02/03/2025, 9:38 PM2.23.2 stable release https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/21910 (please review)
Proposal: this is last release in the 2.23.x release branch, once it goes out, we close off 2.23.x. Any thoughts or objections?
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fast-nail-55400
02/03/2025, 11:18 PMDo we make (or should we make) any promises about how long a stable release will be supported for? 2.23.x was released on 11/19/24, so 2.23.x has been stable for less than 6 months. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/releases/tag/release_2.23.0
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broad-processor-92400
02/03/2025, 11:37 PMI think we have a vague "two versions back" schedule? I don't think we've written one down, though, e.g. https://www.pantsbuild.org/stable/docs/contributions/releases/release-strategy doesn't mention it (as far as I can see)
broad-processor-92400
02/03/2025, 11:40 PME.g. the doc site hard-codes the third-most-recent version as "deprecated", so 2.22 is the most recent deprecated one, with 2.23 / 2.24 unlabelled.
In the past, we've generally just close branches ad hoc: when it seems like the rate of change drops/to save volunteer effort. (There's a bit of a gap between the easy "do a cherry-pick" maintainer decision and someone actually doing the (small amount of) leg work to actually get the stable patch releases out.)
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fast-nail-55400
02/03/2025, 11:51 PMI'm fine with whatever we decide in any event given maintenance of older release branches is a burden on us. Just wanted to see if we had any "maintain for N months" policy.
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fast-nail-55400
02/03/2025, 11:55 PMI'm fine with us closing the branch as proposed.
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broad-processor-92400
02/06/2025, 9:12 AM2.23.2 is out now, so I’ll close off the 2.23.x branch and milestone tomorrow (unless I hear otherwise :) )
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broad-processor-92400
02/09/2025, 10:15 PMClosed 2.23.x; thanks for everyone's contributions to that release series!
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