Announcements for btrfs-progs?

Announcements for btrfs-progs?

[Holger Hoffstätte]

David,

I was wondering if you could please send out announcements for btrfs-progs
when you tag a release or -rc? There doesn't seem to be a good mechanism
to track releases and IMHO the more people are notified, the more
testing we can get, not to mention faster propagation into distros.

Thanks,

Holger

Re: Announcements for btrfs-progs?

[WorMzy Tykashi]

On 11 December 2014 at 12:37, Holger Hoffstätte
<holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> I was wondering if you could please send out announcements for btrfs-progs
> when you tag a release or -rc? There doesn't seem to be a good mechanism
> to track releases and IMHO the more people are notified, the more
> testing we can get, not to mention faster propagation into distros.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Holger
>
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Hi Holger,

I agree that announcements would be good, but I'd still like to point
out that, since the btrfs-progs repository is mirrored on github, you
can use the poorly advertised atom feed to keep track of tags:
https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/releases.atom

Alas, there is no such feature for watching branches (it was
apparently discontinued). So I would (also) like to see announcements
when a new integration branch is made public. At present, I rely on
manually checking the branch list periodically.

Cheers,


WorMzy

(resent to btrfs mailing list too)

Re: Announcements for btrfs-progs?

[David Sterba]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:37:56PM +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> I was wondering if you could please send out announcements for btrfs-progs
> when you tag a release or -rc? There doesn't seem to be a good mechanism
> to track releases and IMHO the more people are notified, the more
> testing we can get, not to mention faster propagation into distros.

Will do. Sorry for inconvenience.

Re: Announcements for btrfs-progs?

[Eric Sandeen]

On 12/11/14 6:37 AM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> I was wondering if you could please send out announcements for btrfs-progs
> when you tag a release or -rc? There doesn't seem to be a good mechanism
> to track releases and IMHO the more people are notified, the more
> testing we can get, not to mention faster propagation into distros.

Not that it matters for non-Fedora users, but FWIW Fedora has release monitoring
scripts which notify me when a new tarball appears.

So Fedora, at least, gets a prompt update even if there's no formal announcement
(assuming I'm not behind the curve).  ;)

Still, announcements would be great, esp. if they have a summary of what's contained
in the update.

-Eric

Re: Announcements for btrfs-progs?

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 11 December 2014 at 12:37, Holger Hoffstätte
<holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> I was wondering if you could please send out announcements for btrfs-progs
> when you tag a release or -rc? There doesn't seem to be a good mechanism
> to track releases and IMHO the more people are notified, the more
> testing we can get, not to mention faster propagation into distros.
>

I subscribe to the RSS feeds of the btrfs git repositories thus notice
new commits / tags.

However, I did miss when btrfs git repository shifted release
maintainers and thus changed the repository i should be subscribed to.

But, I don't currently package nor test RC tarballs, only released
versions and after dust settles.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.