Re: OpenEmbedded Release 2010.12 --- needs your help!

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:33:01PM +0100, Eric B?nard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 04/11/2010 23:06, Denys Dmytriyenko a ?crit :
>> On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:04:43PM +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> at OEDEM we discussed the need for OpenEmbedded releases.
>>>
>>> - OpenEmbedded releases are planned in certain months, so that we can
>>> plan stabilization efforts in the future.
>>> - Each release is a point release in time.
>>> - A release is a candidate branch point for a stable branch (which can
>>> be maintained by those who use it).
>>> - The next release is planned 2010.12, more specifically December 1st.
>>> That's only four weeks from now.
>>> - The 2010.12 release is hand-picked from a recent testing branch.
>>
>> - OpenEmbedded releases are planned to be time based and happen every 3 
>> month
>> (quarterly), starting with the first one on December 1st.
>>
> - what about a "no major change" freeze period for 2-3 weeks before each 
> release to have a enough time to stabilize a little bit the beast ?

I thought Leon kind of mentioned it in the first bullet point above, but 
probably not very clear. And yes, we definitely need a 2-3 weeks "feature 
freeze" period for stabilization. Thanks for pointing it out.

>>> Now that our testing team has the process in place to gather test
>>> results, please consider to build your
>>> favorite set of distro/machine targets using tinderbox, and report your 
>>> results.
>>>
>>> One requirement is to use bitbake 1.10, as the minimal requirement
>>> will soon be 1.10 for the OpenEmbedded metadata.

-- 
Denys