Re: Time for an xfsprogs "alpha1" release?

Greg Freemyer
2013-09-12T21:38:50Z

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> 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.
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> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric

If it's relevant, openSUSE's factory release is currently in feature
freeze for bleeding edge stuff, but it should open back up in a week
or two. (After they branch off the next stable release.)

If you don't know factory => openSUSE => SUSE (SLES)

much like rawhide => fedora => redhat

Greg