Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>       I think it's time to do a new release
>       this friday the merge window close
>       Attention I'll close arround 8pm Shanghai Time
>       follwing by 4 weeks of rc

I disagree with this..

>From Tuesday to Friday is simply not reasonable for the volunteer
efforts that are ongoing and in some cases have been ongoing for a
long time to produce some sort of results.


Personally I have three items of high interest which I would like to
see in the next release, in no particular order:

1. Efforts by Tomek and Simon toward SWD
2. Cleaning up the total mess regarding libusb-1.0 in OpenOCD
3. Andreas' new FTDI MPSSE driver

By 1. I do not mean that next release must support SWD, but I do mean
that openocd.git must have developed in an agreed-upon direction.
Simon and Tomek have both put a lot of effort into this and I want to
see some of that go into the release, even if there is more work to
come.

2. and 3. go partly hand-in-hand, since mpsse uses libusb-1.0.

One approach for 2. is to revert the use of libusb-1.0 in OpenOCD
completely, which affects the jlink, osbdm and stlink_usb drivers.
Another is to try to patch up the code so that it is at least not
an absolute mess. The latter requires significantly more effort.

After reverting, mpsse could be added along with somehow clean
libusb-1.0 support in the build system, and libusb-1.0 would not
be used by any other code.

The USB abstraction needs fixing real bad, I don't think it's
something we want to release. I urge you to have a look at it
Jean-Christophe, ideally along with the review I provided which
was unaddressed before the code was merged.


In any case I think it's unlikely that anyone will be able to
contribute anything significant in just a few days. I'm not against
doing a release soon, but I think perhaps two weeks or so would allow
contributors a chance to plan and perform some final pushes into
gerrit.


//Peter

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