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([2a02:1205:34c8:dc00:863a:4bff:fe50:abc4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d17sm4282835wjs.32.2015.07.22.14.35.01 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:35:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55B00C76.5060808@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:34:46 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 Subject: Re: GRUB release schedule? References: <20150720182245.GC14894@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2A6kJc5B9dWT1RSRpJEfAcOSvcvSuaMtD" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::230 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:35:10 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --2A6kJc5B9dWT1RSRpJEfAcOSvcvSuaMtD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 20.07.2015 21:25, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > I'll do next beta tomorrow and will assess current open bugs to see how= > far we're from release >=20 Fixing tests takes longer than expected. I'll continue tomorrow. > Le 20 juil. 2015 20:23, "Peter Jones" > a =C3=A9crit : >=20 > Hi everyone, > Is there a plan for when upcoming GNU GRUB releases will happen? >=20 > As far as I can tell, the last official release on > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ was 2.00 on 28-Jun-2012, and the last b= eta > on http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grub/ for the next version was > 2.02~beta2 on 24-Dec-2013 . There are (give or take) 471 patches > committed since that beta 18 months ago. >=20 > In the mean time, nearly every Linux distro is shipping a package > derived from the 2.02~beta2 release plus some number of patches, > some from the upstream repo and some not, and it's cumbersome to re= ctify > which ones aren't upstream vs which ones have been fixed upstream w= ith > /nearly/ the same patch, etc., with all the noise of so many patche= s > since the release. >=20 > I suspect this would be better for a lot of GRUB users if releases > happened on a regular schedule, or if, relatively often (say once o= r > twice per year), a release schedule that spans several weeks and > organized some kind of alpha->beta->release progression were decide= d > upon and followed. >=20 > So, can we make a release process that happens according to some re= gular > cadence? What needs to be done to make regular releases happen? G= oing > for years with the patch volume GRUB sees without doing a release i= s > really not good for anybody. >=20 > -- > Peter >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >=20 --2A6kJc5B9dWT1RSRpJEfAcOSvcvSuaMtD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREKAAYFAlWwDIUACgkQmBXlbbo5nOuR2wEAk+o0gAVXuf/9Ysx8xjofg8Dx dIgH+X5sxyJv1tJY2B0BAIMyQYFS0V7G+GRigWwRu3bvEXqdI+mkek66upeDLTPJ =OwWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2A6kJc5B9dWT1RSRpJEfAcOSvcvSuaMtD--