Re: Feature Developement vs. Stablisation and Bug fixing

[Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>]

Hi Richard,

On 12.09.2012 13:15, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know in the past this has taken some people by surprise. Both OE-Core
> and the Yocto Project are aiming at release points every six months,
> roughly October and April. In order to prepare for those there is a
> period of 6-8 weeks beforehand which is aimed at stabilisation and bug
> fixing.
>
> We are now entering that window where we need to heavily taper off new
> features and concentrate on the quality and stability of the release
> which is scheduled for mid October. I'm not saying no new feature
> patches will get taken but I will be asking questions like "why is this
> being worked on?" and "shouldn't this wait until after release?". I'd
> really like to see effort being focused on bugs now, not enhancements.
>
> I know there are a couple of things which have been worked on for a
> while and have been slightly delayed which I'd probably lean towards
> taking (some offline postinstall work spring to mind). I was asked
> whether I'd take a binutils update in a couple of weeks and the answer
> is no, I'd very likely not as we're at the point we need to lock in on
> the toolchain now (and major kernel version).
>
> Does anyone have any questions?
>

do you expect to have a filed bug in Yocto's bugzilla to attract attention
to a problem, or published patchset with problem description and a fix is
sufficient?

With best wishes,
Vladimir