Re: GRUB release schedule?

[Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>]

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> 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
>>
> Fixing tests takes longer than expected. I'll continue tomorrow.

Any more on this?

>> Le 20 juil. 2015 20:23, "Peter Jones" <pjones@redhat.com
>> <mailto:pjones@redhat.com>> a écrit :
>>
>>      Hi everyone,
>>      Is there a plan for when upcoming GNU GRUB releases will happen?
>>
>>      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 beta
>>      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.
>>
>>      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 rectify
>>      which ones aren't upstream vs which ones have been fixed upstream with
>>      /nearly/ the same patch, etc., with all the noise of so many patches
>>      since the release.
>>
>>      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 or
>>      twice per year), a release schedule that spans several weeks and
>>      organized some kind of alpha->beta->release progression were decided
>>      upon and followed.

I agree.

   -- Bruce Dubbs
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