From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1ZKWit-0002Rx-1f for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:09:03 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKWil-0002Ql-Sl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:09:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKWih-0008Ep-IC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:08:55 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::233]:33478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKWbt-0005KF-Ov for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:01:49 -0400 Received: by oixx19 with SMTP id x19so10222894oix.0 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:01:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3KI6azZw5qITVFHymud+IRi4Q2Gxpw4WTV2xDMRM2IE=; b=hrC/EQ8Y+NVuI/ngmG7qLMCfvLulI7F4HNT65JyQ7e8APrzAjdiiBkmYvsnspizWBI t1LO1QyApHD2J6IyQePtTkL954Tr8rarsyuTEX/v/rtjCV4fZYUXRBOUB7nlMyffcmFu m51Y1fAGOsquBzVulTavu+13alCuzRD6qAKmBdnDb1T1ItCy3M828ROwC8lQFBHGIw/O PfFI9HCJhPtLiZy3O2ksg2hW7c2kS94QTMxqw5orUiexq+j+37FA9Qr0iA+r8FK4LHW1 GIZqymBNCxomu8ORgicHbyVxgElB68QMuMSaFPGmD4Al5bYEwiq+vJY+pHDbn/fzR7+A nUlw== X-Received: by 10.202.230.70 with SMTP id d67mr40157346oih.14.1438196507987; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:01:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.75] (cpe-70-123-244-133.satx.res.rr.com. [70.123.244.133]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a10sm14841392obl.9.2015.07.29.12.01.47 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:01:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55B9231A.2070105@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:01:46 -0500 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: GRUB release schedule? References: <20150720182245.GC14894@redhat.com> <55B00C76.5060808@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55B00C76.5060808@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::233 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, 29 Jul 2015 19:09:01 -0000 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" > > 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 linuxfromscratch.org