From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: "'linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com'" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Time for an xfsprogs "alpha1" release?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:40:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523250E5.2050607@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52323DB7.8000800@sandeen.net>
On 09/12/13 17:18, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 9/12/13 4:54 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> On 09/12/13 16:17, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> With all of the changes for CRC filesystems in xfsprogs git now, I'm wondering if it'd be a good idea to do a "3.2.0-alpha1" sort of release.
>>>
>>> I know it's not yet feature complete, but I think there would be value in getting a version-stamped tarball out there for testing - it could filter to rawhide-ish distros, and get a bit more airtime while the remaining bits get worked out.
>>>
>>> We'd probably want a nice readme about what's new and what's not yet done, caveats, etc, but I think it'd be worth getting it out there into the hands of willing testers, w/o requiring them to do a build from git.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Eric
>>>
>>
>> Good idea, but xfsprogs is in a state that it can't compile:
>>
>> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-09/msg00396.html
>>
>> Patch 31 v3 / 55 is broken. It is missing xfs_sb.c and has an extra
>> xfs_mount.c.
>>
>> If you want it this week, we could do the corrections or wait for Dave
>> to repost.
>
> hm? The git tree builds fine here, anyway (modulo some warnings).
>
> so quick, cut an alpha1 before it breaks. ;)
>
> (but if you mean: we should get the latest stuff on the list in first,
> and fix it so it builds - ok - but there will probably always be more
> stuff to pull in, so at some point when we have a reasonable amount of it
> in place, we could cut a test release? There's always "alpha2"...)
>
> -Eric
Yep, simple to fix. I manually pulled in xfs_sb.c to make sure 47 v2 /
55 was still okay. I can have a tar tomorrow.
--Mark.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-12 21:17 Time for an xfsprogs "alpha1" release? Eric Sandeen
2013-09-12 21:38 ` Greg Freemyer
2013-09-12 21:54 ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-12 22:18 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-12 23:40 ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2013-09-13 1:58 ` Eric Sandeen
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