Re: GRUB release schedule?

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

Le 24 juil. 2015 06:20, "Andrei Borzenkov" <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> В Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:22:45 -0400
> Peter Jones <address@hidden> пишет:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > Is there a plan for when upcoming GNU GRUB releases will happen?
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the last official release on
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ was 2.00 on 28-Jun-2012, and the last beta
> > on http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grub/ for the next version was
> > 2.02~beta2 on 24-Dec-2013 .  There are (give or take) 471 patches
> > committed since that beta 18 months ago.
> >
> > In the mean time, nearly every Linux distro is shipping a package
> > derived from the 2.02~beta2 release plus some number of patches,
> > some from the upstream repo and some not, and it's cumbersome to rectify
> > which ones aren't upstream vs which ones have been fixed upstream with
> > /nearly/ the same patch, etc., with all the noise of so many patches
> > since the release.
> >
> > I suspect this would be better for a lot of GRUB users if releases
> > happened on a regular schedule, or if, relatively often (say once or
> > twice per year), a release schedule that spans several weeks and
> > organized some kind of alpha->beta->release progression were decided
> > upon and followed.
> >
> > So, can we make a release process that happens according to some regular
> > cadence?  What needs to be done to make regular releases happen?
>
> Apart from having more active contributors? :) Automating build and
> regression tests would definitely help it.
>
Actually there is something more useful: code review system like gerrit. Does Savannah have one?
> >                                                                 Going
> > for years with the patch volume GRUB sees without doing a release is
> > really not good for anybody.
> >
>
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