From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TBlgp-0002Ko-QJ for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:05:08 +0200 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1TBlUf-0003hZ-8B from Vladimir_Zapolskiy@mentor.com ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:52:33 -0700 Received: from SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([137.202.0.104]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:52:33 -0700 Received: from [172.30.4.60] (137.202.0.76) by SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com (137.202.0.104) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.289.1; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:52:30 +0100 Message-ID: <50507778.3000208@mentor.com> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:52:24 +0300 From: Vladimir Zapolskiy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.5) Gecko/20120624 Icedove/10.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <1347444916.2122.101.camel@ted> In-Reply-To: <1347444916.2122.101.camel@ted> X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.76] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Sep 2012 11:52:33.0138 (UTC) FILETIME=[182CE520:01CD90DD] Cc: openembedded-devel , openembedded-core Subject: Re: Feature Developement vs. Stablisation and Bug fixing X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:05:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Richard, On 12.09.2012 13:15, Richard Purdie wrote: > Hi, > > I know in the past this has taken some people by surprise. Both OE-Core > and the Yocto Project are aiming at release points every six months, > roughly October and April. In order to prepare for those there is a > period of 6-8 weeks beforehand which is aimed at stabilisation and bug > fixing. > > We are now entering that window where we need to heavily taper off new > features and concentrate on the quality and stability of the release > which is scheduled for mid October. I'm not saying no new feature > patches will get taken but I will be asking questions like "why is this > being worked on?" and "shouldn't this wait until after release?". I'd > really like to see effort being focused on bugs now, not enhancements. > > I know there are a couple of things which have been worked on for a > while and have been slightly delayed which I'd probably lean towards > taking (some offline postinstall work spring to mind). I was asked > whether I'd take a binutils update in a couple of weeks and the answer > is no, I'd very likely not as we're at the point we need to lock in on > the toolchain now (and major kernel version). > > Does anyone have any questions? > do you expect to have a filed bug in Yocto's bugzilla to attract attention to a problem, or published patchset with problem description and a fix is sufficient? With best wishes, Vladimir