On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:29:35PM +0100, Patrick Leslie Polzer wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I would like to propose the following release strategy: > > 1) make the next version number 1.7 > 2) release at least one release candidate before the final version > > Reasons: major changes in 1.6.24/1.6.25 (PedUnit support, important bug > fixes in disk_dos.c and the contraint solver) and the next version > (major structural changes in disk_gpt.c and fs_ext2/, both of which > still need good testing, favorably by lots of users; new documentation
I would include there the code for more flexible flags and partition types and generic handling of values of many kind in partition tables, since this will break ABI i believe. I think we should not hurry with the 1.7 release, and have some kind of 'devel' branch for it to put into it all abi breaking changes we want to do. > format) warrant a change of minor version. It will also motivate more > people to upgrade their parted package (I'm still annoyed all the time > by all kinds of different rescue disks and distributions still having > some version < 1.6.24). Hehe. :) Also, please, try changing the message to something that asks people to try out the newer version if any (URL at http://...) to check if a new version is available. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
