В Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:22:45 -0400 Peter Jones <pjo...@redhat.com> пишет:
> Hi everyone, > Is there a plan for when upcoming GNU GRUB releases will happen? > > As far as I can tell, the last official release on > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ was 2.00 on 28-Jun-2012, and the last beta > on http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grub/ for the next version was > 2.02~beta2 on 24-Dec-2013 . There are (give or take) 471 patches > committed since that beta 18 months ago. > > In the mean time, nearly every Linux distro is shipping a package > derived from the 2.02~beta2 release plus some number of patches, > some from the upstream repo and some not, and it's cumbersome to rectify > which ones aren't upstream vs which ones have been fixed upstream with > /nearly/ the same patch, etc., with all the noise of so many patches > since the release. > > I suspect this would be better for a lot of GRUB users if releases > happened on a regular schedule, or if, relatively often (say once or > twice per year), a release schedule that spans several weeks and > organized some kind of alpha->beta->release progression were decided > upon and followed. > > So, can we make a release process that happens according to some regular > cadence? What needs to be done to make regular releases happen? Apart from having more active contributors? :) Automating build and regression tests would definitely help it. > Going > for years with the patch volume GRUB sees without doing a release is > really not good for anybody. > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel