So far I have not seen any response from the devs, which is a bit
disappointing :-(
In any case, I thought to add that apparently 3.12 has been named a
"long-term kernel" last week:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/26/596
https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
But I guess that Openwrt has already gone past the possibility of using 3.12,
as some platforms are already at 3.13 and 3.14 got first checkins today.
On 15.2.2014 10:50, Hannu Nyman wrote:
What is the current plan regarding the next releases?
In 2012 it sounded like the goal was to move to a more rapid release
strategy, maybe something every 6 months.
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2012-August/016427.html
But that has not been the outcome during that 18 months since that
discussion :-(
And then later after the AA12.09 release there was some talk and initial
preparations for an AA 12.09.1 maintenance release, but there has not been
much happening in the AA branch. It has been practically dead (5 check-ins
in last 3 months). Is there going to be AA12.09.1 release or not?
The current situation is a difficult from documentation and support
perspective: for example ipv6 support varies a lot: old 12.09 has different
ipv6 config and modules than the 12.09 branch currently has, and then trunk
is again different (no more 6relayd). Same goes also toward netifd, which
has seen lots of changes in trunk.
I feel that it would be great to have either a 12.09.1 rather soon, maybe
with a bit more aligned with trunk than it currently is, or alternatively a
new BB 14.x release.
Regarding the next trunk release, I am a bit confused about the current
amount of various kernels. For a while I though that the next release might
be built on the long-term 3.10.x kernel, but currently there is so much
3.13 work going on, that I guess that 3.10 will not be the basis. At the
same time the are still semi-abndoned(?) platforms with kernel
3.3/3.6/3.8/3.9. Based on that I fear that there is a long road to the next
release.
Developers and us regular contributors are happy with the self-built daily
trunk builds, but a proper release with a stable package repository would
make it easier for the average end-user.
It would be great if the developers would open the current roadmap a bit.
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