Question only: What is the release strategy of Swiftmailer Bundle

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Symfony Swiftmailer Bundle

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Question only: What is the release strategy of Swiftmailer Bundle #176

Closed lbayerl closed 7 years ago

lbayerl commented 7 years ago

As a Symfony user I love to use Swiftmailer Bundle, but I don't fully understand the release strategy.

Looking at the latest releases there have been four 2.x releases while a 3.0 is already existing: 2.3.x, 2.4.x, 2.5.x.

They do not seem to match with Symfony framework release numbers but I cannot find anywhere some information why there are so many maintained parallel streams of this bundle and when/whether it makes sense to upgrade etc.

Do I miss some information here or was I simply to blind to see?

stof commented 7 years ago

so many parallel streams of this bundle ? I don't understand what your mean. There is no 2.3.x, 2.4.x or 2.5.x branches for this bundle

lbayerl commented 7 years ago

According to the releases tab here on Github the following tags are the 'released' versions of this bundle within the last 10 days: 2.5.5, 2.3.12, 2.4.3, 2.6.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.0 - that's what I mean and don't comprehend.

fabpot commented 7 years ago

Let me explain: The 2.3/2.4/2.5 versions are not supported anymore but as the constraint for Swiftmailer was wrong, I released new versions to avoid people getting the latest 6.0 version on older projects. The only maintained versions are 2.5 and 2.6. Use 2.6 if you are on PHP 7.