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Re: [platform-releng-dev] APITooling baseline for 3.6 maintenance development
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> 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.
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> 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.
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Or, the API freeze check could use 3.6.0 as the reference baseline to
catch any illegal API changes/additions in 3.6.1.
Darin
