On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:23:53PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > So, I think it's about time we start pushing out a 6.3 release. What > do you guys think? Here are the outstanding issues I can think of. > > * Linux-2.6.21: Yesterday I read this blog post from the Fedora kernel > maintainer, > Dave Jones: > > http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/79957.html > > Doesn't exactly make 2.6.21 sound like the appealing kernel to base > our stable > release on. I'm not the expert here, but it may be better to wait > for 2.6.22. Food > for thought, anyway. And 2.6.22 will be better ? From my reading, much of the problem for fedora is because they moved to libata - one of my boxes is using that, and has been for about 6 months, I think you are too. So, for some of us it works, and anyway there is no requirement to move from the old ide drivers. Actually, I think recent kernels are a lot better, I just hope 2.6.22 gets rid of that offensive message about updating 'shutdown' (maybe it has already gone, I haven't tested since -rc2). I know Linus is unpredictable, but I think .22 is probably at least two weeks away, plus a couple more weeks for stable updates to fix whatever major bugs show up. > > * Docbook XML/XSL changes: Manuel, how's that coming along? I haven't really > been paying attention to this lately. > > * Udev rules: Alexander has posted in a couple other places that we have > broken > rules for DVB and floppy device setup. Alexander/Bryan, could you > guys look at > our ruleset and make sure they do everything we want them to? > > * Bootscripts: There are a couple changes that I'd like to get in. > Nothing critical. > I'll have a separate post on that. > > Anything else? > If we don't release soon, everybody will be expecting updates to gcc and glibc. For x86 I have no opinion on gcc-4.2.0 (it's beaten me to a pulp on ppc64) and at the moment I don't know if the damage from glibc acquiring its own futimens() (possible spelling error) extends into blfs. I'm just about to try a build of my own with newer non-toolchain packages, but I'd be happy to stick with what we have plus 2.6.21.5 if that means we can get something out soon - I'm starting to get offended by people mentioning gcc-4.0 in support problems ;-)
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