From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Henningsson Subject: Re: ALSA release cycle Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:51:10 +0200 Message-ID: <5049EDBE.2090005@canonical.com> References: <5049DCA4.6000607@canonical.com> <5049E164.3000405@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com [91.189.89.112]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06CE2616B5 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 14:51:10 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <5049E164.3000405@gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Daniel Mack Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 09/07/2012 01:58 PM, Daniel Mack wrote: > On 07.09.2012 13:38, David Henningsson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At Plumber's we discussed the ALSA release cycle. Our releases recently >> have been irregular, and the reasoning behind why a release was done at >> that time, has not been very obvious. >> >> IIRC, we kind of leaned towards releasing every six months. I don't >> remember if there was any consensus about whether to try to align this >> cycle to something else (e g Gnome, KDE, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc), or not. > > ... or the kernel? At least for the kernel parts of ALSA, syncing an > ALSA version to kernel version would automatically tell us which patches > will make it into a new release. Plus, it would also be easier to > compare feature sets (something like "ALSA 1.0.26 gives us what we have > in kernel 3.6"). > > Would that be feasible or am I missing something? I took that up as an alternative. I think more people leaned towards six month cycles, but it's still an open question. To me, I also think aligning releases to the kernel makes sense, but it'll also mean a lot of releases with little change in, so maybe six month cycles are better for that reason. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic