Voldemort Release status

[ctasada]

Hi everyone,

As far as I known, the latest Voldemort release is 0.96, but in the GitHub project I can see 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 branches created and release notes updated.

Are any of those branches release ready? I see a lot of changes in those versions, the 1.1.0 I remember that included some "in progress" BDB changes, but now I see 3 more versions on top of it. I feel lost there.

Some days ago Otis was talking exactly about this lack of communication with the Voldemort Community. Right now I'm testing the migration from 0.90.1 version, but I'm not really sure if I should use 0.96 or something else. Also I don't known what performance improvements should I expect from any of this versions.

Looking forward for your comments.

Best Regards,

Carlos.

[Chinmay Soman]

In general, there will always be active branches (ahead of the latest stable revision) being worked upon in github. So no, the 1.x.x branches are not yet release ready. We do realize that changing the version drastically should've been communicated properly to the community. But most of these changes are still in a way have not been battle tested.

Please look out for an official release soon.

[ctasada]

Hi Chinmay,

Thanks for the clarification, but this way of working confuses me a bit.

Please correct me wherever I'm wrong, but this way of using branches means, up to my understanding, that you have a closed functionality roadmap, otherwise, how can you known where to put each new feature?

I had the impression that until now, Voldemort worked with a single release-branch and different feature branches that where merged when the feature was finished/stable. That, from my point of view, helps to have a more dynamic development and an open roadmap.

Regards,

Carlos.