Re: Yocto Project 1.2 Release Status

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 04/18/2012 08:20 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 16:53 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 03:47:47PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> I thought I'd update everyone with the current 1.2 status.
>>>
>>> I'm going to branch master for release at this point. We've fixed a lot
>>> of issues, I'm hoping the -rc4 build will be a good one. There are signs
>>> there are some more minor issues around and bugs do keep getting opened.
>>> These are still being investigated so we'll continue to let that happen.
>>> Once we have a QA report for -rc4, we'll be in a better position to make
>>> a call on how things are looking.
>>
>> Does it mean that after creating branch, master will be open for
>> postponed patches from ML and master-next or do you want to keep master
>> as close to release branch as possible for some time (e.g. for those
>> 1.2.1 fixes)?
> 
> I have hoped people would work more on the stabilisation and testing but
> I don't think I'll be able to hold off the pressure to start master
> rolling again at some point relatively soon.
> 
> It won't happen immediately as the 1.2 release is building which means I
> have no resources to test master right now so I will hold off until
> those are available.
> 
> To be honest at a personal level, I'm also pretty worn out after the
> past couple of weeks of bug fixing, triage and review and would ideally
> like to disappear for a couple of weeks. Realistically this isn't going
> to happen now but maybe in a few weeks...
> 

I think I'll be proposing a forced vacation policy for RP which includes
temporarily locking out his user id on all yoctoproject resources....

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel