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From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: More frequent kexec-tools releases
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:36:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E85B26.2080203@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140128184042.GA7098@redhat.com>

Hello

On 01/29/2014 02:40 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just now we were discussing that fedora kexec-tools should rebase to
> upstream kexec-tools every release so that we can test the latest code
> sooner.
> 
> Then Dave Young pulled in some data about the kexec-tools release
> duration.
> 
> Date:   Tue Mar 19 10:46:46 2013 +0900
>     kexec-tools 2.0.4 ~100 commits
> 
> Date:   Mon Jan 16 09:15:25 2012 +1100
>     kexec-tools 2.0.3 ~100 commits
> 
> Date:   Thu Jul 29 13:40:00 2010 +0900
>     kexec-tools 2.0.2 ~80 commits
> 
> Date:   Thu Aug 13 09:28:08 2009 +1000
>     kexec-tools 2.0.1 ~60 commits
> 
> Date:   Sat Jul 19 10:31:30 2008 +1000
>     kexec-tools 2.0.0
> 
> So that is 5 release in 5.5 years. It is roughly 1 release per year.
> 
> I am wondering if there is any interest in more frequent releases of
> kexec-tools. Say every 3 months or every 6 months.
> 
> IMHO, it might be better if there are more frequent release of kexec-tools
> (say a release every 6 months) and then every 6 months distributions
> should be able to rebase to that new release.
> 
> Thoughts?

Agreed. Sometimes, important changes in the kernel side will lead to the change
in the kexec-tools, so especially in this case, I think it might be better
to release a new version asap.

> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 
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-- 
Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-29  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-28 18:40 More frequent kexec-tools releases Vivek Goyal
2014-01-29  1:36 ` Zhang Yanfei [this message]
2014-01-29 14:23   ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-31  5:23     ` Simon Horman
2014-01-31 14:30       ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-04  8:31         ` Simon Horman
2014-02-04 12:41           ` Simon Horman
2014-02-04 14:31             ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-05  1:12             ` Zhang Yanfei
2014-02-05  6:49               ` Simon Horman
2014-02-05 13:20                 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-06  1:55                   ` Simon Horman
2014-02-06 14:23                     ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-06 23:58                       ` Simon Horman
2014-02-07  2:20                         ` Dave Young
2014-02-07 14:34                         ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-12  1:16                           ` Simon Horman
2014-02-25  4:12                         ` WANG Chao
2014-01-29 16:46 ` Khalid Aziz
2014-01-29 16:52   ` Vivek Goyal

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