"Abdelkader Boudih" <[email protected]> writes: > Regarding the release date, it is still about seven months away, so I > dont see it as encouraging anyone to rush. Rushed releases usually > happen because there is pressure from shareholders, customers, > conferences, or promised features. None of those apply here. > > The only thing I call 'urgent' here is that Flashrom only gets one 1/4 > century anniversary. That is a milestone we cant recreate a month > later, so we rather fit the release to the anniversary than fit the > anniversary to the release.
No rush now, but as it gets closer, there is a real risk of "does the release date change" vs "do we after making a non-allowed change to an rc, wait the specified amount of time". Planned dates are inherently problematic and need a mitigation plan. > Regarding the versioning: > > 1.9.0 is intended to be a normal stable release, not an alpha or > preview of 2.0. The idea is to collect the pending fixes, refactoring > and documentation improvements into one last 1.x release, giving users > a stable upgrade path before any removals happen. That is why Iim > proposing 1.9.0 instead of 1.8.0. If majority prefer to just skip > 1.9.0, that also fine. If it's a normal stable release there is no reason to use an unusual version number. Irregular versioning raises the "what are you thinking, and why?" question. > 2.0.0 is where I will make the breaking changes by removing legacy > programmers that are effectively unmaintainable and no longer testable > on existing hardware. The fact that this naturally aligns with the > project’s 25th anniversary makes it an ideal milestone for a major > version bump. > > As for what makes 2.0 different, it is not just the programmer > removals. I would like to like it to represent a shift in focus: from > carrying decades of historical baggage to maintaining a smaller, > actively testable programmer set, while substantially expanding the > catalog of verified flash chips. To me, that’s a meaningful project > milestone worthy of a major version. I can see that. > If the that sound good, we freeze the submission of CB:93706, until > after 1.8/9 is released. I did remove all the legacy programmers > locally, so once are ready, i will open all the diffs. I'm just one person, and we'll see what everybody else eays. _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
