[platform-releng-dev] APITooling baseline for 3.6 maintenance developmen

[Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In order to get everyone to use the appropriate baseline for 3.6 
maintenance development, I am sending this message to the releng list.
The right baseline for the 3.6 maintenance stream is 3.6.0 and not 3.5.2. 
The reason for this is that no new APIs should be added in a dot release. 
In order to prevent this from happening, 3.6.0 should be the baseline to 
use. So if any new API is added, the tooling will suggest moving the 
version to 3.7.qualifier and this is forbidden.
If you use 3.5.2 as the baseline, you can end up introducing new APIs 
without noticing since the minor version is already incremented.

Hope this clarify what needs to be done to continue to use API tooling for 
3.6.x development.

The API freeze check can be removed from the 3.6 maintenance build page 
since no new API can be added if everybody is using this setting.

Thanks,

Olivier