> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:30:11PM +0100, Petr Vorel wrote: > > Hi Daniel,
> > [Cc Vladimir] > > ... > > > > > I don't really know about the release cycle, but personally I wouldn't > > > > > mind to accelerate it. That's only my two cents though as somebody who > > > > > hasn't been involved in the project that deeply. > > > > +1 (that would allow to greatly reduce number of patches in distros, but > > > > understand the lack of maintainers time). > > > I hope we will be able to release 2.06 in 2-3 months. Now I am looking > > > at cutting rc1 shortly. Expect it in the following weeks. > > That'd be great. > > > Definitely I do not want to make current release cycle a norm. I am > > > going to work on improving it after 2.06 release. I think we will be > > > targeting something between 6-12 months. > > Anything than current situation will be great. > > One would say that releasing more often with smaller diff would be better > > even > > for you as a maintainer, but maybe the amount work to test everything > > before the > > release is huge (given that testing e.g. Adrian does are probably done > > manually). > > Busy projects with enough maintainers and other community members which > > helps > > with reviewing and with working CI and good test coverage release every 3-4 > > months. It's clear that Grub isn't in that state, I wonder what could the > > community do to help you to improve the situation a bit. > At this point we need help with testing and reviews. We want to be sure > as much as possible that current code is in pretty good state and ready > for release. WRT reviews, if you can see something on the list which is > in the area of your expertise do not hesitate to review/comment. If you > are not sure the maintainers will be OK with your comment just say that. > We can add our comments later. These really help us to improve GRUB code. Thanks for info! > I am also working on getting more time for GRUB maintainer work. I hope > I will manage to do that soon and will be able to clear current backlog > quickly. Good luck! > Daniel Kind regards, Petr _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
