Re: IS: GRUB release cycle: WAS: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] argon2: Import Argon2 from cryptsetup

[Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>]

Hi Daniel,

[Cc Vladimir]
...
> > > I don't really know about the release cycle, but personally I wouldn't
> > > mind to accelerate it. That's only my two cents though as somebody who
> > > hasn't been involved in the project that deeply.
> > +1 (that would allow to greatly reduce number of patches in distros, but
> > understand the lack of maintainers time).

> I hope we will be able to release 2.06 in 2-3 months. Now I am looking
> at cutting rc1 shortly. Expect it in the following weeks.
That'd be great.

> Definitely I do not want to make current release cycle a norm. I am
> going to work on improving it after 2.06 release. I think we will be
> targeting something between 6-12 months.
Anything than current situation will be great.
One would say that releasing more often with smaller diff would be better even
for you as a maintainer, but maybe the amount work to test everything before the
release is huge (given that testing e.g. Adrian does are probably done manually).

Busy projects with enough maintainers and other community members which helps
with reviewing and with working CI and good test coverage release every 3-4
months. It's clear that Grub isn't in that state, I wonder what could the
community do to help you to improve the situation a bit.

Kind regards,
Petr

> Daniel