util-linux status

util-linux status

[Pádraig Brady]

What is the status of util-linux?
There doesn't seem to be anything significant
released in about 1.5 years now.

I'm worried about patches getting lost,
especially since there were a large number
of thirdparty bugs/patches referenced in
the changelog for 2004.

Personally I submitted a patch in 2004 that was
merged immediately, then I sent a simple bug fix
early in 2005 that has never been released.

Can we have a mailing list (on vger?) to
at least archive patches and bugs?

This is the timeline over the last while as I see it:

23 Sep 2005 ----------------------------------------2.12r
  cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
  umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
20 Jan 2005 ----------------------------------------2.12q
  updated translations
01 Jan 2005 ----------------------------------------Maintainership change
23 Dec 2004 ----------------------------------------2.12p
                           :
                           : many changes in 16 versions
                           :
05 Mar 2004 ----------------------------------------2.12a

Pádraig.

Re: util-linux status

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:04:46PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> What is the status of util-linux?
> There doesn't seem to be anything significant
> released in about 1.5 years now.
> 
> I'm worried about patches getting lost,
> especially since there were a large number
> of thirdparty bugs/patches referenced in
> the changelog for 2004.
> 
> Personally I submitted a patch in 2004 that was
> merged immediately, then I sent a simple bug fix
> early in 2005 that has never been released.
>...
> This is the timeline over the last while as I see it:
> 
> 23 Sep 2005 ----------------------------------------2.12r
>   cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
>   umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
> 20 Jan 2005 ----------------------------------------2.12q
>   updated translations
> 01 Jan 2005 ----------------------------------------Maintainership change
> 23 Dec 2004 ----------------------------------------2.12p
>                            :
>                            : many changes in 16 versions
>                            :
> 05 Mar 2004 ----------------------------------------2.12a

What is missing in your timeline are the 2.13-pre releases that contain 
everything I've done.

But I know I have a big backlog of util-linux emails, and I hope having 
soon some spare time for handing them.

> Pádraig.

cu
Adrian

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Re: util-linux status

[Pádraig Brady]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> What is missing in your timeline are the 2.13-pre releases that contain 
> everything I've done.

Ah thanks! I missed this directory:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/testing/

> But I know I have a big backlog of util-linux emails, and I hope having 
> soon some spare time for handing them.

Cool. I still think it would be worth setting up a mailing list.
There are a lot of tools there that will generate a lot of mail,
as you've experienced.

thanks,
Pádraig.

Re: util-linux status

[David Greaves]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Cool. I still think it would be worth setting up a mailing list.
> There are a lot of tools there that will generate a lot of mail,
> as you've experienced.
>   
Suggestion: just make sure you set up the archive at the same time to
capture the first messages :)

David

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Re: util-linux status

[Ian Kent]

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > What is missing in your timeline are the 2.13-pre releases that contain 
> > everything I've done.
> 
> Ah thanks! I missed this directory:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/testing/
> 
> > But I know I have a big backlog of util-linux emails, and I hope having 
> > soon some spare time for handing them.
> 
> Cool. I still think it would be worth setting up a mailing list.
> There are a lot of tools there that will generate a lot of mail,
> as you've experienced.

There are lots of applications in util-linux.
Setting up a mailing list may give you the oppertunity to enlist help.
If you could speead the work load that would have to be a win.

Ian