2015-05-27 2:51 GMT+02:00 Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com>: > The fact of the matter is, the last 2 releases of systemd have been > brown bag releases. Neither 219 nor 220 are useable as the tarballs are > provided. v220 doesn't even build in a large number of configurations. > v218 wasn't quite as bad, but landed 18 patches in Arch's packaging > before v219 was released. For the average Arch package, this is unheard > of, let alone being a *necessity* in order to make software useable. > > Please, let's figure out a way to lower the amount of work that gets > sharded out and duplicated by downstream packagers.
Glad to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way. Let me quote myself from #systemd: <mbiebl_> zbyszek: looks like we want a v221 release soon <mbiebl_> fwiw, I think our QA for doing releases sucks <zbyszek> mbiebl_: I'm working on the selinux bug currently... <zbyszek> mbiebl_: I think the releases are possibly the point of highest instability <mbiebl_> a bit more official planning and giving people time to test would be a great start <zbyszek> I suggested doing a week of cooling off before a release before, but somehow that didn't stick. <mbiebl_> just telling people, when the release is planned, would help <mbiebl_> right now, that feels really amateurish <zbyszek> mbiebl_: yeah, that would help. But without a rule that only bugfix and cosmetic or documentation changes go in, it's hard to test stuff properly. <mbiebl_> absolutely, just saying that atm we don't even have that <mbiebl_> i.e. we know when a release is planned <mbiebl_> that's imo the absolute minimum <mbiebl_> the result is broken dist tarballs <mbiebl_> and distros having to ship 50+ patches until it get's usable <mbiebl_> that sucks bigs time -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel