Vladimir Prus wrote:
What you propose is essentially:
- Post 1.36.0 release, duly tested and packaged - Post a set of hotfixes
Another alternative is
- Post 1.36.0 release, duly tested and packaged - Post 1.36.1
Now, if the 1.36+hotfixes are tested as extensively as the real release, then you already spend the resources, the only extra effort is packaging. If, for whatever reason, it is decided that hotfixes are obvious enough as to don't require any testing, then 1.36.1 package, incorporating the same hotfixes, can be released without any testing too.
Actually, wouldn't testing the N hotfixes require testing all 2^N - 1 possibilities? That is, since each hotfix could be tested independently, we would really need to test every combination of applying/not applying the hotfixes (except the case of not applying any of them, thus the -1). Releasing a point release would only require testing possibility (that corresponds to applying all of the hotfixes). So it seems like testing hotfixes requires considerably more work than testing a point release. David