Thanks for bringing this up Greg, I was also starting to think it was about time to plan a release. On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:55 AM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We finally released 9.1.0 on 2020-07-22. I think the target date for > that one was 2020-07-01, wasn't it. The next release should then be > sometime next month, right? 2020-09-01? Or 2020-09-22? I feel like there are still a lot of changes in flight and I would like to see more testing on hardware in this release and knowing how long it takes to actually get a release out with the Apache process I would be more in favor of trying to target and of Sept with the possibility to bring it in a bit if things seem stable or voting goes faster. I am expecting to have a lot more time for a month or so starting in a week, so happy to push that effort forward, including testing now that I have a better array of boards including non ARM.
> > I don't know what the policy of the NuttX Incubator is, but prior to > Apache, I used the major revision number to indicate incompatibilities. > When the major revision number changed, the code was considered > incompatible with revision with the previous major revision number. > That was not the case with 9.0; 9.0 was not incompatible with 8.2. In > that case, the major revision change only signified the first Apache > release. > > A couple of recent PRs have made the NuttX internal time APIs > incompatible with the timing APIs of all preceding versions. Those > change are in PR #1565 and PR #1545. All proprietary device drivers of > NuttX users will be broken in the next release. So the question would > be, should be bump the next version 10.0? Or should we release an > incompatible 9.2? These changes are quite minor (but yes effects a lot of platforms), so my gut says lets just do 9.2, but I would not vote against a major version bump if people feel inclined. We have had breaking build system changes on minor releases in the past. > > Also, we need to document what it is that NuttX users will need to do be > fix their broken drivers. I can offer to do this. Where would such > instructions go. Obviously, eventually in the ReleaseNotes. But where > I put such information now? Nathan started this here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/NuttX+9.2 I would say let's fill that out, we can change it to 10.0 later. I will kick off getting the tracking board and the PR changes going in next week, that I thought worked quite well for realtime and async collaboration last time. --Brennan
