On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:42:18PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > GRUB legacy is also no longer maintained, yet nobody suggests purging > information about it.
GRUB Legacy is maintained. I know, because I maintain it myself in Debian. See: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-47/changelog You might also want to check for others doing the same: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-29ubuntu36/changelog And so on. And I also deal with bug reports. > A branch that is no longer maintained can be equivalent to a branch > that's feature-complete and bug-free (think TeX). As long as the > mainline GRUB2 version does not have ALL features of the branch (and if > past experience is any indicator, that will never happen), mainline will > be inferior and the branch will be preferred by many people. Those > people need documentation. > So deleting the existing text is not an option right now. No objection from me, as long as a contact address for bug reports and support is provided. If there's no explanation on where to send bug reports, people will assume it's fine to contact GRUB authors, and grub-devel doesn't want the hot potato. > 2) Write someting in the GRUB2 wiki about GRUB2 mainline coreboot support. My draft has an explanation on the branched version of GRUB 2. Are you impliing that the page should consider the abandoned version that nobody is maintaining, and that Coresystems states has stopped developing for, as the main option for those users who searched for "GRUB" in your wiki, and clicked the "GRUB" link? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
