On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 23:30, Guenter Knauf wrote: > Hi all, > although we had already two or three runs for doing a 2.1.0 release, it still not > happened yet. > What I really cant understand is why; nobody expects a 'stable' release, those > asking for it are pretty much aware of the fact that 2.1 is ALPHA or BETA, so what > holds back a relase? Why cant we do 2.1.x releases just as with 2.0 ?? > I remember that we had already tarballs, we tested already, and then it got > forgotten, and the tarballs never made it to a public area.... > > my reasons for asking are mainly: > > - more people will then test the new stuff, and will hopefully provide feedback. > - the feedback is very important for backports. We have a huge number of > fixes/changes in 2.1 for which get no vote for backport, even trivial patches which > dont change important code (f.e. changing log from ERROR to DEBUG or such). > - those not on this list can provide feedback through bugzilla with a release number > rather than 2.1-dev which can be anything of the last 1,5 years or so. > - those having problems with the stable release can try the 'unstable' 2.1.x and > report if this fixes an issue.
The reason is mainly that I dropped the ball on the 2.1 release. I'll try and get on top of that in the next two weeks. If someone else wants to beat me to it, that's fine too. Sander
