Upstream project has got new maintainer last month. I'm contacting him to see what's the plan is. They were doing release every 2-3 years before and 4.2 has been released in 2021 (Dec 30th :) ) so not so long time ago.
-- Pavel On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, at 12:09, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 11:17 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 09:55, Pavel Zhukov <pa...@zhukoff.net> wrote: > > > > > > mdadm latest official release was long time while development is > > > ongoing. This caused growing number of downstream patches in the layer. > > > Switch to git recipe and cleanup patches. > > > > Wait. > > > > Did you engage with upstream to find out if/when they're making a new > > release? Switching to a random commit in the middle of a development > > cycle needs to be carefully considered, and preferably, confirmed with > > upstream. Even if the last release was a long time ago, and > > maintenance burden with custom patches is growing. > > We did discuss this one a little on the tech call or bug triage. mdadm > is proving to be a pain, the tests are broken and we have a growing set > of patches. > > It seems upstream are happy working in git and weren't going to make > official releases, I'm not sure where I head that though. > > Whilst I generally prefer releases, moving over to git does seem like > the right thing to do in this case. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > > >
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