Re: RFC: New release for DTC?

[Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:50:07 -0500, Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 August 2012 21:36:25 David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:15:39PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > Following advice from Jon Loeliger, I would suggest that a new release
> > > of DTC be tagged and packaged.
> > > 
> > > It is important for some projects to rely on a released version, rather
> > > than use a random cset from the repository. Comes to mind, the automated
> > > build-systems, such as buildroot.
> > > 
> > > Of course, I can help, if need be! ;-)
> > > 
> > > Are there any others who think that a release would make sense?
> > 
> > This has been a bit of a perrenial problem.  dtc development has been
> > sufficiently gradual that there haven't been many obvious points for
> > making new releases.  dtc developers (i.e. Jon and my, mostly) don't
> > feel much pain from the lack of releases, since the git snapshots
> > generally work well (thanks to limited scope and a good testsuite).
> > 
> > I wonder if we should move to a model of just making a release every 3
> > or 6 months from whatever happens to be in the tree at the time
> > (barring obvious known breakage, of course).
> 
> yes please.  even just a version that uses datestamps would be fine.
> -mike

Fine by me.

g.