Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > If there is no plans for a release, either we have to create a branch to > target the LFS dev book or we have to do what you say. > That about covers it, except you got it backwards, we should branch for 6.3. Currently there are 65 outstanding bugs for the 6.3 target. Nine of which are assigned. A majority of the unassigned are minor package upgrades, a good portion of which I'm already using now, and I plan to start with those. A couple of others will be knocked out by the version updates.
Of particular interest are Gnome-2.20, KDE4 (I haven't played with it yet), and Xorg-7.3. We need to evaluate what we can realistically do in a reasonable time frame. Say 1 month till a package freeze on 6.3 branch, and just get done what we can get done. Give 2 pre's and a release and just keep moving. Head continues as it can, but we get the known fixes in place for the issues mentioned above to sync with LFS. We can branch now, it's not a big deal to merge any commits either way. Actually, lets give a week to branch, get some of the easy ones done to minimize the merging. Some notes on the 3 I mentioned above: IMO, xorg is a no go without back porting a couple of very important functionality patches from the pre-release 1.4.1 server, or waiting for the official release of xorg-server-1.4.1. I'm tempted to suggest holding the release specifically for this one. Looking at the commit log, http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=shortlog;h=server-1.4-branch, seems they've broken out of the inactive period and we can hope for a release soon. There are currently 4 remaining blockers. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=xorg-server-1.4.1. Of those bugs, 2 have proposed fixes, one I can't test (keyboard layout), and what memory leak? I kind of figured I might have noticed it after a week's runtime...though I did boot into another system with 7.1 on it and notice about 30M difference, but it's steady. Gnome, really doesn't seem too difficult to me. Randy, if you don't have the time to do it, I can get it. IIRC 2 additional packages will have to be added, have to check my notes. I'm currently running 2.20.x now on top of the pre-release xorg server, and it seems stable through the past couple of weeks worth of use. KDE-4, pretty major change here which I've not played with. Can it reliably be beat into shape before a release? How about 3.5.8 or do we again want to wait? KDE 4 is supposed to be a pretty major feature update and pretty exciting for the KDE crowd. I'm a gnome user myself, but I use parts of KDE, so I'm kind of waiting to check it out too. I'd also like to get these big version bumps out of the way before the 7.0 release. We'll be movin enough to follow LFS's lead for multiple architectures in BLFS-7.0. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
