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Backporting policy for protocols that are under construction
From: Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:03:34 -0500
There is currently a change pending backport to the 1.12 branch (long since committed to master) that is a non-trivial dissector upgrade. Normally we don't backport this kind of change, to keep the regression potential to a minimum for stable releases, but this situation is somewhat unusual. The protocol in question was still being actively designed and developed when the 1.12 branch was created, so the dissector currently in the 1.12 branch implements a basically abandoned version of the spec that never ended up in serious use. I am ambivalent on this right now. I don't want to cause too much churn on the stable branch, but I can see the argument for backporting it regardless. It's also worth noting that while the protocol in question now is relatively narrowly focused, we will likely run into the exact same issue soon with HTTP2 which is rather more significant. What does everyone think? Should we be conservative and forbid this sort of thing? Permit it, but only after some extra level of testing/review? Other options? Thanks, Evan (The change in question is https://code.wireshark.org/review/4050 but I'm kind of looking for a more general resolution given that we're going to run into this problem again.) ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Backporting policy for protocols that are under construction Evan Huus (Nov 19)
- Re: Backporting policy for protocols that are under construction Alexis La Goutte (Nov 20)
- Re: Backporting policy for protocols that are under construction Bálint Réczey (Nov 20)
- Re: Backporting policy for protocols that are under construction Roland Knall (Nov 20)
- Re: Backporting policy for protocols that are under construction Evan Huus (Nov 24)
- Re: Backporting policy for protocols that are under construction Bálint Réczey (Nov 20)
- Re: Backporting policy for protocols that are under construction Alexis La Goutte (Nov 20)