On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Pavel Roskin<pro...@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 22:20 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Many "GNU GRUB  version 1.96" used in production are likely builds from
>> more recent SVN snapshots. It would (IMO) be useful to have some info
>> about the actual installed version.
>
> I can tell from my experience with other projects that such suggestions
> appear when there is not enough leadership in the project, and nobody
> cares about producing stable releases.
I personally care of making a stable release. Unfortunately I have no
such authority. Only Marco and Okuji have.
The usefulness of such patch isn't limited to semi-fix the lack of
stable release it's also useful for developers and testers to be sure
that new version was indeed installed
>
> It would be better to produce named prereleases or release candidates if
> we are not comfortable about releasing 1.97 right now.
1.97 is a pre-release anyway. The release would be 2.00
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
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