RFC: New release for DTC?

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Dec 12 05:59:08 EST 2012


Hi Jon,

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Jon Loeliger <jdl at jdl.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > This has been a bit of a perrenial problem.  dtc development has been
>> >> > sufficiently gradual that there haven't been many obvious points for
>> >> > making new releases.  dtc developers (i.e. Jon and my, mostly) don't
>> >> > feel much pain from the lack of releases, since the git snapshots
>> >> > generally work well (thanks to limited scope and a good testsuite).
>> >> >
>> >> > I wonder if we should move to a model of just making a release every 3
>> >> > or 6 months from whatever happens to be in the tree at the time
>> >> > (barring obvious known breakage, of course).
>> >>
>> >> yes please.  even just a version that uses datestamps would be fine.
>> >> -mike
>> >
>> > Fine by me.
>>
>> So is this happening? I agree a regular release would be useful, and I
>> think it has been about 18 months since the last release.
>
> I'll apply a couple 3 outstanding patches (from Kim Phillips)
> and get around to tagging a new release.  If you, or anyone else
> have patches or functionality you want in this release, please
> post those patches now.

OK thanks. I don't have any new patches at present.

>
> jdl

Regards,
Simon


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