On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:10:37PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:13:13PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Colin added himself to the Uploaders field when I requested him to do so, > > as he's been in charge of Ubuntu's switch to GRUB2 for Ubuntu and after > > the "disappearance" of Felix and Robert, he's the Debian person with more > > experience to do uploads of the package. He did know he wouldn't be able > > to track upstream as Felix and Robert were (ie, uploading several > > snapshots every two weeks or so). > > > > I can try to work with Vladimir and Colin to get things shaped out a > > little, but honestly I don't think I'd be in a position to do this before > > the 22th of June, when exams finish. > > In the meantime, it would be terribly useful if some of you can inform > us of whether you think things can get in shape for Squeeze or not, > considering the currently available manpower. If not, we probably ought > to be more "communicative" on the fact we really need help on grub2 > (e.g. Colin can blog about that *g*).
I think grub2 is in a slightly less awful state than it looks just from its RC bug count. Boot loaders do tend to attract RC bugs - if it doesn't boot in some corner case, people understandably crank the severity up rather high even if it doesn't indicate that it's broken for most people. That said, this is a reason and not an excuse. I've certainly been neglecting the bug list - Robert and Felix were doing a much better job of keeping up with it than I seem to have managed. I'm in the process of preparing a new upstream snapshot now, and have spent most of the day trying to tidy things up a bit. I've downgraded a couple of RC bugs as corner-case and unreproducible, and closed several more since they were already fixed in the current package. Of the rest, they mostly fall into a few main categories with the odd outlier: * upgrade-from-grub-legacy problems * an assortment of problems with complex block devices (LVM/RAID) * unstable device naming in grub-pc/install_devices I haven't tackled the first yet, but they're hopefully fairly tractable; that code is just a little unrefined as yet. Fixing the LVM/RAID cases is very likely a matter of sitting down with a sequence of test installs in a VM, which I'm going to attack over the next couple of days. The last is nearly done, but I want to fix some known problems in it first and will probably upload a snapshot without it to start with in order to make it easier to bisect any new bugs. In short: my apologies that it's ended up in such a state. However, I think I will have time to at least deal with the RC bugs, and hopefully a number more (including e.g. the btrfs probing bug). I wouldn't complain about help though! (CCs welcome on replies if you want to get my attention a bit faster.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100527160709.gy12...@riva.ucam.org
