Re: Time for an xfsprogs "alpha1" release?

Mark Tinguely
2013-09-12T21:54:24Z

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.
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> 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.

--Mark.