Hello Paul, On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Paul Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll be releasing opkg v0.2.4 in around 2 weeks and will be following > that with v0.3.0 in the next month or two. The v0.3.0 release will > incorporate some useful features, including cache improvements and > package file extraction improvements. A dependency will be added on > libarchive which will replace the crufty manual handling of tar and > gzip formats which used to be in opkg. Due to these changes, I'd > definitely like to get this tested before the v0.3.0 release and so > I'll be tagging release candidates. If anyone would like to help with > testing please let me know! I have a meta-opkg layer > (https://bitbucket.org/opkg/meta-opkg) which makes it really easy to > test opkg release candidates and git commits in OpenEmbedded, it even > has a readme file with instructions.
I'd like to say my public 'Thank you' for this work. opkg is a critical piece of software in several Free Software projects and commercial products. Being involved in past with APT and Debian's development I know it is not an easy task so I do value your work on it. Please let me know when you want a specific test on it and I try to find some time to do it or allocate someone to handle it. > Also, my circumstances are changing over the next few months. I've > come to the end of the 'active' part of my PhD research and I'm now > writing up my thesis part-time. I'm also starting full time employment > in January. This will make for a pretty busy schedule and I don't know > until I settle into the new routine how much free time I'll have to > work on opkg. This would be a great time for someone to step up and > help move things forward to v0.4.0 and beyond. I'll still be involved > in opkg development and I'm happy to continue my role as maintainer, > but I just want to make it clear that my time will be limited and any > help with development, patch review and bug triage would be much > appreciated! Except the 'pretty busy schedule' and 'limited time' parts it is all good news :-) I wish you all the luck on those new challenges :-D -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
