Re: stable bcache-tools?

[Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:46:37PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 05:05:37PM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> 
> > The current git head should be completely fine for production usage -
> > there's not really anything complicated enough (save the udev stuff,
> > maybe) to merit tagging a specific version as stable. I suppose
> > distributions could use some kind of hint that useful changes have gone
> > in and they should package a new version - anything in particular you
> > want there?
> 
> No, it's just that my distribution, Gentoo, only has the option of a
> stale snapshot from months ago or a live build that just pulls git head.
> In general, I just like stable software to have tagged releases, so
> distributions can ship the same stuff. The maintainer of mcelog, for
> example, doesn't tag releases, and expects distributions to just grab
> whatever's there the day they package, so there's really no continuity
> between distributions as far as what you end up with. There doesn't even
> need to be a tarball packaged or anything, just a simple tag in git
> identifying a "release" so distributions can package it.

Heh, I see. Ok, I'll tag a release :p

(there really should be some standardized announce mechanism/channel
from packages -> distros. hrm).