Exiftool - Production Release

[devnull]

Hi Phill,

I'm FreeBSD maintainer of Exiftool.
I would like to ask you if we can consider a more recent version as a production release, at least one version including geolocation feature.

FreeBSD has very strict control over stability, and we cannot include versions not tagged as stable or production in the repository.

And taking advantage of the opportunity, I also wanted to ask you how scheduling works to tag a release as a production release.

Thanks,
~ devnull

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks for your support of ExifTool on FreeBSD.

I usually try to do a production release every couple of months, but I'm a bit overdue now.  I'm planning version 13.00 as a production release.

Honestly, there is very little difference between a development and a production release.  The main goal is to define an arbitrary 2-month-ish period between releases to reduce the workload for those who don't want to be updating more frequently.

You can effectively consider any development release as stable.

- Phil

[devnull]

Thanks for your reply, Phill!

I understood you. Unfortunately I can't define the rules, the commiters demand that we adopt this standard of releasing only production release.

No problem! I will wait next production release.

Thanks for keeping ExifTool alive!

~ devnull